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Perversion Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Perversion? [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 Synonyms \| Synonyms for Perversion: sexual perversion Related Terms \| Find terms related to Perversion: 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 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 Perversion In Webster's Dictionary \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.

Perversion Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Perversion?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Perversion: sexual perversion

Perversion In Webster's Dictionary

\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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