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Definitions: Perversity |
PerversityNoun1. Deliberate unruliness. 2. Deliberately deviating from what is good. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "perversity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: PerversitySynonyms: contrariness (n), perverseness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Churlishness; Adjective: spinosity, perversity; moroseness; (sullenness) a. sternness; Adjective: austerity; moodishness, captiousness; cynicism; tartness; Adjective: acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity. |
Obstinacy | Self-will, contumacy, perversity; pervicacy, pervicacity; indocility. |
Sullenness | Moodiness; Adjective: perversity; obstinacy; torvity, spinosity; crabbedness; Adjective: |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Perversity |
| English words defined with "perversity": To play the mischief. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "perversity": Age. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Never have I encountered such foul, mindless perversity! Have you considered a career in the church? (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Island of Perversity (1913) Tails of Perversity 7 (2000) Perversity in Paris (1994) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Schopenhauer | In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. |
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Hunting of the Snark | Carroll, Lewis | Such is Human Perversity. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Jones | That is a God-given natural choice. God ordained that. God put that in me. Homosexuality is a perversity. It is a choice of sin. |
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| "Perversity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perversity" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 69 | 40,280 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
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| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "perversity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prapësi (misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, monkey tricks, naughtiness), zvetënim (degeneration, perversion), shpirt kundërshtimi, mbrapshti, çoroditje (anility, confusion, corruption, dissipation, embarrassment, perversion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فسوق (debauch, depravity, fornication, immorality, profligacy, sensuality), فساد (blight, corruption, decay, decomposition, degeneration, depravation, depravity, deterioration, disintegration, dry rot, immorality, invalidity, perversion, putrefaction, putridity, rot, rottenness), سوء طبع, عناد (inexorability, inflexibility, intransigence, obduracy, obstinacy, pertinacity, perverseness, refractory, stiffness, stoutness, stubbornness, tenacity, waywardness, wilfulness), ضلال (aberrance, deception, delusion, error, obscurity, wandering, wrong), إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, sheer, sidetrack, swerve, tangency, twist), شكاسة (petulance), شر (abuse, evil, iniquity, mal, malignity, viciousness, wickedness), دعارة (harlotry, perverseness, prostitution, whoredom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | опърничавост (impracticability, shrewishness), превратност (mutation, vicissitude), погрешност (erroneousness, fallaciousness, falseness, falsity, illegitimacy, incorrectness, mistakenness, viciousness), перверзия (perversion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | perverzita (perverseness), zvrhlost (perverseness), zvrácenost (obliquity, perverseness), úchylnost (perverseness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | perversitet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | perversité sexuelle, perversité (perverseness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Perversität (perversion), Pervertiertheit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σεξουαλική διαστροφικότης, δυστροπία (biliousness, crabbedness, crustiness, grouchiness, moroseness, orneriness, peevishness, pettishness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, surliness, testiness, waspishness, waywardness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תהפוכה (deceit, perverseness, upheaval, vicissitude), שחיתות (corruption, decadence, degeneracy, demoralization, depravity, immorality, perversion, turpitude), עקשות (crookedness, obstinacy, stubbornness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | természetellenesség (mannerism, perverseness), romlottság (corruption, corruptness, depravation, depravity, perversion, taint), perverzitás (depravity, perverseness), fajtalanság (lechery, lubricity, perverseness, perversion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pervertimento sessuale, pervertimento (debauchery), perversità, aberrazione sessuale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 旋毛曲がり (cantankerous, eccentric), 意固地 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つむじまがり (cantankerous, eccentric), いこじ (obstinacy, stubbornness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erversitypay perversidade (iniquity, monstrous, naughtiness, unrighteousness, villainy, wickedness). (various references) perversiune (perversion), perversitate (perverseness), îndãrãtnicie (obduracy, obstinacy, pertinacity, restiveness, stubbornness), încãpãţânare (contrariness, obduracy, obstinacy, pertinacity, restiveness, stoutness, stubbornness). (various references) порочность (depravity, naughtiness, perverseness, viciousness). (various references) aingealtas. (various references) perverzija (perversion), razvratnost (lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, obscenity), izopačenost (depravity, perverseness, perversion). (various references) perversidad (evil, iniquity, perverseness, viciousness). (various references) vrånghet (cussedness), ondska (evil, evilness, evils, malignity, spite, wickedness), förstockelse (obduracy), fördärv (bane, blight, corruption, destruction, fate, perdition, ruin, taint, undoing). (various references) yoldan çıkma (obliqueness, obliquity), terslik (acerbity, acrimony, awkwardness, biliousness, contrariety, contrariness, crossness, cussedness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, moods, reverse, reversion, shortness, sullenness, tartness), sapıklık (aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, heresy, perversion), kötülük (badness, blackness, darkness, devilry, disservice, enormity, evil, harm, iniquity, malfeasance, malice, malignity, misdeed, misdoing, spitefulness, vice, viciousness, villainy, wickedness), inatçılık (contrariness, cussedness, dourness, hardness, indocility, intractability, intransigence, mulishness, obduracy, obstinacy, recalcitrance, refractoriness, restiveness, self will, stickiness, stiff neck, stiffness, stubbornness, toughness, waywardness, wilfulness, willfulness), aksilik (awkwardness, bile, contrariety, contrariness, contretemps, crossness, dourness, fractiousness, gruffness, hardness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, moodiness, moods, petulance, recalcitrance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, slip, slip up, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, testiness, trouble, vexatiousness). (various references) упертість (contrariness, contumacy, induration, intractability, jib, non-compliance, obduracy, obstinacy, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, piggishness, recalcitrance, tenacity), розбещеність (badness, corruption, dissoluteness, naughtiness, profligacy, rottenness, salacity). (various references) tính trái thói cảnh éo le tính tai ác (perverseness), tính ngang ngạnh (perverseness, refractoriness), tính khư khư giữ lấy sai lầm (perverseness), sự hư thân mất nết (perverseness), sự đồi truỵ tính cáu kỉnh (perverseness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pravitas. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Perversity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perversest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "perversity" (pronounced perver"sutē) |
| 6 | -v er" s u t ē | adversity, biodiversity, diversity, university. |
| 4 | -s u t ē | analyticity, animosity, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, capacity, complexity, complicity, curiosity, density, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, ethnicity, falsity, Felicity, ferocity, generosity, incapacity, intensity, laxity, mendacity, monstrosity, multiplicity, necessity, obesity, opacity, overcapacity, paucity, perplexity, pomposity, propensity, publicity, reciprocity, religiosity, scarcity, simplicity, specificity, tenacity, toxicity, varsity, velocity, veracity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, austerity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, divinity, docility, duality, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, femininity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opportunity, originality, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, personality, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, velvety, venality, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, visibility, vitality, volatility, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-p-r-r-s-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: perverts, restrive, riveters, severity, yperites. | |
-3 letters: perries, pervert, pestier, prester, previse, preyers, prisere, privets, pyrites, reivers, reprise, respire, respite, restive, retires, retries, retypes, reverts, reviser, rievers, riveter, striper, striver, terries, veriest, verites, yperite. | |
-4 letters: esprit, everts, evites, eyries, perter, pester, peters, preset, preyer, priers, priest, privet, pryers, pyrite, reiver, reives, rerise, resite, rester. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-p-r-r-s-t-v-y" | |
+3 letters: preuniversity. | |
+4 letters: prescriptively, preservability. | |
+5 letters: retrospectively. | |
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