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From Middle English exception, excepcioun, from Anglo-Norman excepcioun, from Old French excepcion, from Latin exceptiō.
exception (countable and uncountable, plural exceptions)
- The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
the exception of a rule
- That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
- Synonym: outlier
- Antonyms: commonness, generality
That rule is usually true, but there are a few exceptions.
2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 31:
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime.
- (law) An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
- (usually followed by to or against) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense.
- (programming) An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.
- null pointer exception
act of excepting or excluding; exclusion
- Arabic: اِسْتِثْنَاء m (istiṯnāʔ)
- Belarusian: выключэ́нне n (vyključénnje)
- Bulgarian: изключе́ние (bg) n (izključénie), изклю́чване (bg) n (izkljúčvane)
- Catalan: excepció (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: výjimka (cs) f
- Danish: undtagelse (da) c
- Dutch: uitzondering (nl) f
- Esperanto: esceptado
- Estonian: erand (et)
- Faroese: undantak n
- Finnish: poikkeus (fi)
- German: Ausnahme (de) f
- Greek: εξαίρεση (el) f (exaíresi)
- Irish: eisceacht f
- Italian: eccezione (it) f
- Japanese: 除外 (ja) (じょがい, jogai)
- Korean: 제외(除外) (ko) (je'oe)
- Maori: hāungatanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: aberrasjon (no) m
- Portuguese: exceção (pt) f
- Russian: исключе́ние (ru) n (isključénije), изъя́тие (ru) n (izʺjátije)
- Scottish Gaelic: fàgail a-mach f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: výnimka f
- Spanish: excepción (es) f, salvedad f
- Swedish: undantag (sv) n
- Turkish: istisna (tr)
- Ukrainian: ви́ключення n (výključennja), ви́лучення (uk) n (výlučennja)
that which is excepted or taken out from others
- Albanian: përjashtim (sq) m
- Arabic: اِسْتِثْنَاء m (istiṯnāʔ)
- Armenian: բացառություն (hy) (bacʻaṙutʻyun)
- Asturian: esceición f
- Azerbaijani: istisna (az)
- Belarusian: вы́нятак m (výnjatak)
- Bulgarian: изключе́ние (bg) n (izključénie)
- Catalan: excepció (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: výjimka (cs) f
- Danish: undtagelse (da) c
- Dutch: uitzondering (nl) f
- Esperanto: escepto
- Estonian: erand (et)
- Finnish: poikkeus (fi)
- French: exception (fr) f
- Galician: excepción (gl) f
- Georgian: გამონაკლისი (gamonaḳlisi)
- German: Ausnahme (de) f
- Greek: εξαίρεση (el) f (exaíresi)
- Hebrew: יוֹצֵא דֹּפֶן / יוצא דופן (he) m, חָרִיג (he) m
- Hindi: अपवाद (hi) m (apvād)
- Hungarian: kivétel (hu)
- Icelandic: undantekning f
- Ingrian: iskljucenija
- Irish: eisceacht f
- Italian: eccezione (it)
- Japanese: 例外 (ja) (れいがい, reigai), 殊 (ja) (こと, koto)
- Kazakh: ерекшелік (erekşelık)
- Korean: 예외(例外) (ko) (ye'oe), 례외(例外) (ko) (rye'oe) (North Korea)
- Kyrgyz: бөтөнчө (ky) (bötöncö), өзгөчө (ky) (özgöcö)
- Latin: exceptiō f
- Latvian: izņēmums m
- Lithuanian: išimtis m
- Macedonian: исклучок m (isklučok)
- Maori: hāungatanga, rerenga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: unntak n, aberrasjon (no) m
- Pashto: استثنا f (estesnã)
- Persian: استثنا (fa) (estesnâ)
- Polish: wyjątek (pl) m
- Portuguese: exceção (pt) f
- Romanian: excepție (ro) f
- Russian: исключе́ние (ru) n (isključénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: fàgail a-mach f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: výnimka f
- Slovene: izjema (sl) f
- Spanish: excepción (es) f, salvedad
- Swedish: undantag (sv) n
- Tajik: истисно (istisno)
- Thai: ข้อยกเว้น (kɔ̂ɔ-yók-wén), การยกเว้น (th)
- Turkish: istisna (tr)
- Ukrainian: ви́няток m (výnjatok), ви́йняток m (výjnjatok)
- Urdu: استشنا (istisnā)
- Uyghur: ئىستىسنا (istisna)
- Uzbek: istisno (uz)
- Vietnamese: lệ ngoại (vi), ngoại lệ (vi)
- Welsh: eithriad m
- Zazaki: istisna c, ciya (diq) c
(law) an objection
an objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense
computing: an interruption in normal processing
- Arabic: اِسْتِثْنَاء m (istiṯnāʔ), خَطَأ m (ḵaṭaʔ)
- Belarusian: памы́лка f (pamýlka)
- Bulgarian: гре́шка (bg) f (gréška)
- Chinese:
- Czech: výjimka (cs) f
- Finnish: poikkeus (fi)
- French: exception (fr) f
- German: Ausnahme (de) f, Ausnahmebedingung f, Exception f
- Greek: εξαίρεση (el) f (exaíresi)
- Hungarian: megszakítás (hu), kivétel (hu)
- Irish: eisceacht f
- Japanese: 例外 (ja) (れいがい, reigai)
- Polish: wyjątek (pl) m
- Portuguese: exceção (pt) f, exception f
- Russian: оши́бка (ru) f (ošíbka)
- Turkish: olağandışı durum
- Ukrainian: поми́лка (uk) f (pomýlka)
- Zazaki: weziyeto ecayıb
Borrowed from Latin exceptiōnem.
exception f (plural exceptions)
- exception
- (programming) exception (interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition)
- à l’exception de
- d’exception
- exception qui confirme la règle
- exceptionnel
- faire exception
- sans exception
- “exception”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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