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The label a group gives you for deviating from a norm it just made up.
means Someone or something that strays from what's considered normal or expected behavior.
from From Latin 'deviare' — 'de-' (away from) plus 'via' (road or way) — literally meaning to turn off the road. The word entered English use around the 1600s-1700s as 'deviate,' with 'deviant' emerging as the noun/adjective form later, especially gaining force in the 1900s through sociology and psychology, where it became the clinical-sounding stamp for anything that wandered off the path someone else had paved.
- origin
- from latin deviare, to turn off the road
- sociology term
- any trait punished for breaking local expectations
- relative label
- same act, deviant here, heroic elsewhere
- historic irony
- left handedness was once classified deviant