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depravity

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /dəˈpɹævɪti/
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  • rhymes with -ævɪti
  • CMU ARPABET: D IH0 P R AE1 V AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: baseness, degeneracy, perversion, corruption, defilement, degradation, depravation, depravedness, depravity, impurity, iniquity, lewdity, malignity, misdoing, misguilt, obliquity, peccability, pollution, pravity, sin, sinfulness, turpitude, vitiation, wickedness, wrongdoing

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A particular depraved act or trait.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: outrage, turpitude, wickedness, atrocity, depravity, infamy, iniquity, wrong

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Christian, uncountable

Topics: lifestyle, religion, theology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: impurity

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the various turpitudes of modern society

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: turpitude

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: transgression, evildoing

5

noun

Meaning 5

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the luxury and corruption among the upper classes
  • moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
  • its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
  • Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, putrefaction

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: immorality

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: поквара (pokvara) — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Bulgarian: поквареност (pokvarenost) — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Chinese Mandarin: 墮落 /堕落 (duòluò) — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Dutch: verdorvenheid — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Dutch: ontaarding — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Finnish: turmelus — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Finnish: turmeltuneisuus — The state or condition of being depraved
  • German: Verdorbenheit — The state or condition of being depraved
  • German: Schlechtigkeit — The state or condition of being depraved
  • German: Sittenlosigkeit — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Hindi: अनैतिकता (anaitiktā) — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Macedonian: изопаченост (izopačenost) — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Manx: ard-olkys — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Polish: zepsucie — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Polish: zdeprawowanie — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Polish: deprawacja — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Portuguese: depravação — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Romanian: depravare — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Romanian: destrăbălare — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Russian: порочность (poročnostʹ) — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Russian: безнра́вственность (beznrávstvennostʹ) — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Spanish: depravación — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Ottoman Turkish: فساد (fesâd) — The state or condition of being depraved
  • Bulgarian: извратеност (izvratenost) — A particular depraved act or trait
  • Dutch: schanddaad — A particular depraved act or trait
  • German: Schandtat — A particular depraved act or trait
  • German: schändliche Tat — A particular depraved act or trait
  • Polish: niegodziwość — A particular depraved act or trait
  • Polish: nierząd — A particular depraved act or trait
  • Polish: zbrodnia — A particular depraved act or trait
  • Polish: gwałt — A particular depraved act or trait
  • Romanian: desfrânare — A particular depraved act or trait
  • Romanian: corupție — A particular depraved act or trait
  • Romanian: depravațiune — A particular depraved act or trait
  • Bulgarian: греховност (grehovnost) — Inborn corruption
  • Manx: ard-olkys — Inborn corruption
  • Polish: zepsucie — Inborn corruption
  • Russian: греховность (grexovnostʹ) — Inborn corruption
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