exception
noun
[ ɪkˈsɛpʃ(ə)n ]
• a person or thing that is excluded from a general statement or does not follow a rule.
• "he always plays top tunes, and tonight was no exception"
Similar:
anomaly,
irregularity,
deviation,
special case,
departure,
inconsistency,
quirk,
peculiarity,
abnormality,
oddity,
outlier,
edge case,
misfit,
freak,
Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin exceptio(n- ), from excipere ‘take out’ (see except).
without exception
• with no one or nothing excluded.
• "almost without exception, all the residents are opposed to this vandalism"
