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Perversion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use) wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of being perverted; depravity; vice. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    an aberrant sexual practice wordnet
  5. 5
    Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something. countable, uncountable

    "After all, the great error in human judgment is not so much wilful perversion, as that we judge according to situation, and always make that situation our own; while the chances are, that we really have not one thought, feeling, or habit, in common with those on whom we yet think ourselves qualified to decide."

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  1. 6
    a curve that reverses the direction of something wordnet
  2. 7
    A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    Tendril perversion. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Latin perversio, from pervertere (“corrupt”).

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