DEPRAVATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does depravation mean? • DEPRAVATION (noun)
The noun DEPRAVATION has 1 sense:
1. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Familiarity information: DEPRAVATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DEPRAVATION (noun)
Meaning:
Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
depravation; depravity; degeneracy; putrefaction; corruption
Context examples:
the luxury and corruption among the upper classes / moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration / its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity / Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
Hypernyms ("depravation" is a kind of...):
immorality (the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct)
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