exception Definition

exception
noun

1. Someone or something not included.
2. Someone or something that does not, or is allowed not to, follow a general rule.

Example: make an exception
Thesaurus: irregularity, anomaly, abnormality, deviation, peculiarity, rarity, oddity, quirk, special case, exemption, deviation.
3. An act of excluding.

Derivative: exceptionable

Likely to cause disapproval, offence or dislike.

Open to objection.

Derivative: exceptionably
adverb

Idiom: take exception to something

To object to it; to be offended by it.
Thesaurus: disagree with, object to, differ from, be offended by, resent, take umbrage at.

Idiom: the exception proves the rule

The existence of an exception to a supposed rule proves the general truth of the rule (often used in argument when no such conclusion is justified).

Etymology: 14c.