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noun
The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: abasement, corruption, debauchment, adulteration, debasement, defilement, depravation, depravement, impurification, perversion, pollution, profanation
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The state of being perverted; depravity; vice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: degeneracy, sinfulness, turpitude, baseness, corruption, defilement, degradation, depravation, depravedness, depravity, impurity, iniquity, lewdity, malignity, misdoing, misguilt, obliquity, peccability, perversion, pollution, pravity, sin, vitiation, wickedness, wrongdoing
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: normophilia
noun
Ellipsis of tendril perversion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
noun
an aberrant sexual practice;
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: sexual perversion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
Narrower terms: paraphilia, sodomy, buggery, anal sex, anal intercourse, oral sex, head
noun
a curve that reverses the direction of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: curve, curved shape
History
Inherited from Middle English perversion.
Across languages
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
