DEVIANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does deviant mean?
• DEVIANT (noun)
The noun DEVIANT has 1 sense:
1. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
Familiarity information: DEVIANT used as a noun is very rare.
• DEVIANT (adjective)
The adjective DEVIANT has 1 sense:
1. markedly different from an accepted norm
Familiarity information: DEVIANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DEVIANT (noun)
Meaning:
A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
degenerate; deviant; deviate; pervert
Hypernyms ("deviant" is a kind of...):
miscreant; reprobate (a person without moral scruples)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deviant"):
fetishist (one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature))
masochist (someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment)
nympho; nymphomaniac (a woman with abnormal sexual desires)
child molester; paederast; pederast (a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner)
paedophile; pedophile (an adult who is sexually attracted to children)
sadist (someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others)
sadomasochist (someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism)
lech; lecher; letch; satyr (man with strong sexual desires)
bugger; sod; sodomist; sodomite (someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male))
• DEVIANT (adjective)
Meaning:
Markedly different from an accepted norm
Synonyms:
aberrant; deviant; deviate
Context examples:
aberrant behavior / deviant ideas
Similar:
abnormal (not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm)
