sodomite vs deviant

sodomite and deviant both are nouns.

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

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

sodomite: 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 sodomite include degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert.

sodomite (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

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