Usually means: Behavior diverging from societal norms.
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  1. deviance: Merriam-Webster
  2. deviance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deviance: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deviance: Vocabulary.com
  5. Deviance, deviance: Wordnik
  6. deviance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. deviance: Wiktionary
  8. deviance: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. deviance: Dictionary.com
  10. deviance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Deviance (disambiguation), Deviance (sociology), Deviance (statistics), Deviance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. deviance: Rhymezone
  13. deviance: FreeDictionary.org
  14. deviance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. deviance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. deviance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deviance: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deviance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. deviance: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. deviance: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deviance: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. deviance: Anthropological Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deviance: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (sociology) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.
noun:  A person or thing that differs from the expected.

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