buitenbeentje — meaning in English

English meaning

• deviance noun Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.
• outcast noun A person who has been rejected or excluded by a group or society.
• outlier noun A data point that sits far away from the rest of a set of results, and which may signal a real extreme case or a measurement error.

Senses

buitenbeentje is used for these senses in English:

• deviance A person or thing that differs from the expected.
• outcast One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper. [from 14th c.]
• outlier A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.

deviance — full definition

1. noun Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.
2. noun A person or thing that differs from the expected.

outcast — full definition

1. noun A person who has been rejected or excluded by a group or society.
2. adj Rejected or excluded, cast out from a group.

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