Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Aberration has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
a disorder in one's mental state
an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.
The word "aberration" comes from the Latin aberrātiō, meaning "relief or diversion." It originally described something that has wandered away from the correct path, formed by combining the prefix ab- (away) with errō (to wander).