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deviants

deviants is the plural of deviant.

Meaning of deviant

Noun

deviant (plural deviants)

  1. A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
    • He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
    Synonyms:
    heteroclite
  2. A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
    • As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant.
    Synonyms:
    abnormality
  3. (Internet) A member of the online art community DeviantArt.
    • In contrast to Flickr, deviantArt offers a broad range of user affordances, enabling both synchronous and asynchronous interpersonal and group communication, as well as networking with other deviants and the surveillance of the work of others (through the deviantWATCH affordance).2014, Peter Mechant, Lieven De Marez, “Studying Web 2.0 Interactivity: A Research Framework and Two Case Studies”, in Cyber Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts...

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Noun capitalized: Deviants

Deviants

  1. (plural) plural of Deviant

Questions about deviants

What is deviants the plural of?
Deviants is the plural of deviant.
What part of speech is deviants?
Deviants is a noun.

Words near deviants in the dictionary

  1. deviantization
  2. deviantize
  3. deviantized
  4. deviantizes
  5. deviantizing
  6. deviants
  7. deviate
  8. deviated
  9. deviates
  10. deviateth
  11. deviating

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