perversion

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The state of being perverted; depravity; vice.
  3. (countable, uncountable) Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
  4. (countable, uncountable) A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance.
  5. (countable, uncountable) Tendril perversion.

Frequency

25k
Etymology

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

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