About The Word Perversity

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Perversity

Perversity Meaning & Definition
Perversity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Perversity?

[n] deliberately deviating from what is good
[n] deliberate unruliness

Synonyms | Synonyms for Perversity: contrariness | perverseness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Perversity: 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

See Also | cussedness | evil | evilness | fractiousness | orneriness | unruliness | wilfulness | willfulness

Perversity In Webster's Dictionary

\Per*ver"si*ty\, n. [L. perversitas: cf. F. perversit['e].] The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness.

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