perversion
nounAU, UK /pəˈvɜː.ʒən/ · CA, US /pəɹˈvɜɹ.ʒən/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English perversion.
1
The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.
2
The state of being perverted; depravity; vice.
3
Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
- 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
A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality.
5
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of tendril perversion.
- Derived terms
- furversion, tendril perversion
- Related terms
- perverse, perversive, pervert, perverted, pervertedness