English > deviant: 2 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior. |
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| Synonyms | pervert, deviate, degenerate |
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| Narrower | fetishist | One who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) |
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| masochist | someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment |
| nymphomaniac, nympho | A woman with abnormal sexual desires |
| pederast, paederast, child molester | A man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner |
| pedophile, paedophile | An adult who is sexually attracted to children |
| sadist | someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others |
| sadomasochist | someone who enjoys / enjoys / enjoys both sadism and masochism |
| satyr, lecher, lech, letch | man with strong sexual desires |
| sodomite, sodomist, sod, bugger | someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) |
| Broader | reprobate, miscreant | A person without moral scruples |
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| Spanish | degenerado, depravado, pervertido |
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| Catalan | degenerat, depravat, pervertit |
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| Adjectives | deviant | markedly different from an accepted norm |
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| Verbs | deviate | be at variance with |
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