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PERVERSITY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does perversity mean?

• PERVERSITY (noun)
The noun PERVERSITY has 2 senses:

1. deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
2. deliberately deviating from what is good

Familiarity information: PERVERSITY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PERVERSITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

contrariness; perverseness; perversity

Hypernyms ("perversity" is a kind of...):

fractiousness; unruliness; wilfulness; willfulness (the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perversity"):

cussedness; orneriness (meanspirited disagreeable contrariness)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Deliberately deviating from what is good

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

perverseness; perversity

Context example:

there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism

Hypernyms ("perversity" is a kind of...):

evil; evilness (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice)

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