Meaning of PERVERSITY
| Pronunciation: | | purv'ursutee
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- [n] deliberately deviating from what is good
- [n] deliberate unruliness
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| | Synonyms: | | contrariness, perverseness |
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| | See Also: | | cussedness, evil, evilness, fractiousness, orneriness, unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness | |
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| | Definition: | | \Per*ver"si*ty\, n. [L. perversitas: cf. F.
perversit['e].]
The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness.
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| | Related Terms: | | antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, bearishness, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, clashing, collision, conflict, confrontation, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, counterposition, crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, cross-purposes, crustiness, cussedness, difficultness, disagreeability, disagreement, discrepancy, dourness, excitability, fractiousness, frowardness, hostility, huffiness, huffishness, inconsistency, inimicalness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, orneriness, perverseness, perversite, polarity, repugnance, showdown, snappishness, stuffiness, sulkiness, sullenness, testiness, ugliness, waspishness, waywardness, wrongheadedness |
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