depravity
Meaning of depravity
- moral corruption; wickedness.
a tale of depravity hard to credit
I wondered what depravities had occurred in that place
mid 17th century: alteration (influenced by deprave) of obsolete pravity, from Latin pravitas, from pravus ‘crooked, perverse’.
Information about depravity
- It is a name.
- The plural form of depravity is: depravities.
- Languages in which depravity is used:
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Hyphenation of depravity
de-prav-ity
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- depravity is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
depravity synonyms
Meaning corruption:
corruption, degeneracy, depravation, putrefaction
Meaning turpitude:
Meaning immoral or wicked behaviour:
Meaning sexual behaviour that is considered abnormal and unacceptable:
Meaning the fact or state of diverging from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behaviour:
Meaning the condition or process of degrading or being degraded:
Meaning the state or quality of being immoral; wickedness:
Meaning excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs:
Meaning overindulgence in sensual pleasures; dissipated living:
Meaning reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources:
Meaning excessive or offensive sexual desire; lustfulness:
Meaning the state or quality of being obscene:
Meaning indecent behaviour:
Meaning the quality of being evil or morally wrong:
Meaning lack of moral principles; bad character:
Meaning immoral or grossly unfair behaviour:
Meaning behaviour that is contrary to or forbidden by criminal law:
Meaning deliberate cruelty or violence:
Meaning savage physical violence; great cruelty:
depravity antonyms
Meaning principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour:
Anagrams of depravity
Words that rhyme with depravity
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