aberrant vs strange

aberrant

adj
  • Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. 

  • Differing from the norm. 

  • Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth. 

noun
  • A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number. 

  • A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group. 

strange

adj
  • Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. 

  • Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. 

  • Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. 

  • Not belonging to one. 

  • Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. 

  • Of an attractor: having a fractal structure. 

noun
  • Sex outside of one's current relationship. 

How often have the words aberrant and strange occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )