perversion

plural perversions

1. countableuncountableThe action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.

   Synonyms: abasement, corruption, debauchment, abasement, adulteration, corruption, debasement, debauchment

2. countableuncountableThe state of being perverted; depravity; vice.

   Synonyms: degeneracy, sinfulness, turpitude, warp, baseness, corruption, defilement, degeneracy

3. countableuncountableDistortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.

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   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.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 61–62

4. countableuncountableA sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality.

   Antonyms: normophilia

5. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountablegeometryEllipsis of tendril perversion.