Meaning of PERVERSION
| Pronunciation: | | pur'vurzhun
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- [n] the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice"
- [n] an aberrant sexual practice that is preferred to normal intercourse
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| | Synonyms: | | sexual perversion |
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| | See Also: | | actus reus, anal intercourse, anal sex, buggery, head, misconduct, oral sex, paraphilia, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice, sodomy, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct | |
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| | Definition: | | Perversion
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Per*ver"sion\, n. [L. perversio: cf. F. perversion.
See {Pervert}.]
The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a
turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent
or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying
to a wrong end or use. ``Violations and perversions of the
laws.'' --Bacon.
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| | Related Terms: | | aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abstractionism, abuse, abuse of office, abuse of terms, adulteration, apparent soundness, befouling, befoulment, casuistry, catachresis, circularity, college of Laputa, coloring, confabulation, contamination, contorting, conversion, corrupt administration, corruption, debasement, debauchery, defalcation, defectiveness, defilement, deformation, delusion, depravity, desecration, deviance, deviancy, deviation, disingenuousness, distortion, diversion, eisegesis, embezzlement, envenoming, equivocalness, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, evasive reasoning, exaggeration, expressionism, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, false swearing, falseness, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fault, faultiness, festering, flaw, flawedness, fouling, garbling, gloss, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, hyperbole, illusion, inaccuracy, infection, injustice, insincerity, irregularity, jesuitism, jesuitry, kink, litotes, maladministration, malentendu, malfeasance, malobservation, malpractice, malversation, misapplication, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscitation, miscoloring, misconception, misconduct, misconstruction, misdirection, misdoing, misdrawing, misemployment, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misguidance, mishandling, misinformation, misinstruction, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misknowledge, misleading, mismanagement, mispainting, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misusage, misuse, misuse of words, mystification, nonrealism, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, overdrawing, overstatement, oversubtlety, peccancy, peculation, perjury, philosophism, pilfering, plausibility, plausibleness, poisoning, pollution, poor stewardship, prevarication, profanation, prostitution, psychopathia sexualis, psychosexual disorder, rationalization, self-contradiction, sex crime, sexual abnormality, sexual deviance, sexual deviation, sexual pathology, sexual perversion, sexual psychopathy, sidetracking, sin, sinfulness, slanting, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, squeezing, straining, subtlety, subversion, suppuration, torturing, twisting, understatement, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, vice, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, violation, vitiation, wrenching, wrong, wrongness |
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