sodomist vs deviant

sodomist and deviant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sodomist	Yes	No	No	No
deviant	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, deviant is a hypernym of sodomist; that is, deviant is a word with a broader meaning than sodomist:

sodomist: someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
deviant: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

Other hypernyms of sodomist include degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert.

sodomist (noun)	deviant (noun)
someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)	a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

sodomist (adjective)	deviant (adjective)
	markedly different from an accepted norm