affect with
aberration: a departure from
rational thought or
behavior.
Aberration means basically to
err, to make mistakes, or more specifically to have
fixed ideas which are not true. The
word is also used in its scientific sense. It means departure from a
straight line. If a
line should go from A to B, then if it is
aberrated it would go from A to some other
point, to some other
point, to some other
point, to some other
point, to some other
point, and finally arrive at B. Taken in its scientific sense, it would also mean the lack of straightness or to see crookedly as, for
example, a
man sees a horse but thinks he sees a n elephant.
Aberrated conduct would be
wrong conduct, or conduct not supported by
reason.
Aberration is opposed to
sanity, which would be its opposite. From the
Latin, aberrare, to wander from;
Latin,
ab, away, errare, to wander.
—Academy Level II Glossary app Jan 91