perversion
Meaning of perversion
noun
- distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
the thing which most disturbed him was the perversion of language and truth
a scandalous perversion of the law
- sexual behaviour that is considered abnormal and unacceptable.
his book revolutionized ideas about sexual perversion
he indulged in most perversions you could care to name
late Middle English: from Latin perversio(n- ), from the verb pervertere ‘turn about’ (see pervert).
Information about perversion
- It is a name.
- The plural form of perversion is: perversions.
- Languages in which perversion is used:
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Hyphenation of perversion
per-ver-sion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- perversion is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
perversion synonyms
Meaning the action of giving a misleading account or impression:
Meaning the action or offence of giving a false or misleading account of the nature of something:
Meaning the action of falsifying information or a theory:
Meaning a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something:
Meaning the action of interpreting something wrongly:
Meaning the action of misconstruing words or actions; misinterpretation:
Meaning form into a bent, curling, or distorted shape:
Meaning the action or effect of making someone or something morally depraved:
Meaning the undermining of the power and authority of an established system or institution:
Meaning the wrong or improper use of something:
Meaning the action or process of reducing the quality or value of something:
Meaning the fact or state of diverging from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behaviour:
Meaning the action of departing from an established course or accepted standard:
Meaning moral corruption; wickedness:
Meaning the state or quality of being degenerate:
Meaning excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs:
Meaning immoral or wicked behaviour:
Meaning the quality of being evil or morally wrong:
Meaning the state or quality of being immoral; wickedness:
Meaning a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one:
Meaning an abnormal feature, characteristic, or occurrence:
Meaning a deliberate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way; contrariness:
Meaning the state or quality of being irregular:
Anagrams of perversion
Words that rhyme with perversion
Sion, sion, Iasion, Salabrasion, abrasion, antiabrasion, basion, catabasion, chemabrasion, corrasion, dermabrasion, diplasion, dissuasion, erasion, evasion, iconostasion, invasion, microinvasion, mispersuasion, nasion, nonevasion, occasion, opticonasion, overpersuasion, persuasion, pervasion, preevasion, preinvasion, prepersuasion, rasion, reevasion, reinvasion, reoccasion, repersuasion, suasion, subnasion, unpersuasion, adhesion, autolesion, cohesion, decohesion, dyshesion, exesion, hemilesion, inadhesion, incohesion, inhesion, intercohesion, lesion, mesion
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