aberration

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a temporary change from the typical or usual way of behaving:

mental aberration I'm sorry I'm late - I had a mental aberration and forgot we had a meeting today.

In a moment of aberration, she agreed to go with him.

The misconduct was an aberration from the norm for him.

a change from what is typical or usual, esp. a temporary change:

The drop in our school’s test scores was dismissed as an aberration.