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Definition: PRAVITY |
PRAVITYNoun1. Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature. |
Date "PRAVITY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
Etymology: Pravity \Prav"i*ty\, noun. [Latin expression pravitas, from pravus crooked, perverse.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vice | Immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality; (malevolence); corruption; (debasement); knavery; (improbity); profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "PRAVITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Manx | olkys (badness, evilness, iniquity, lousiness, malignancy, malignity, mischief, mischievousness, moral ill, naughtiness, viciousness, wickedness), aaslaanid. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | avitypray sự thiu thối, sự suy đ"i sự hỏng, sự đ"i bại (perversion). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PRAVITY": depravity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PRAVITY" (pronounced 'Prav"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-p-r-t-v-y" | |
-1 letter: parity. | |
-2 letters: atrip, party, privy, tapir. | |
-3 letters: airt, airy, arty, pair, part, paty, pita, pity, prat, pray, rapt, tarp, tivy, trap, tray, trip, vair, vary, vita. | |
-4 letters: air, ait, apt, art, ivy, par, pat, pay, pia, pit, pry, pya, rap, rat, ray, ria, rip, rya, tap, tar, tav, tip, try, var, vat, via, yap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-p-r-t-v-y" | |
+2 letters: depravity, privately. | |
+3 letters: viviparity. | |
+4 letters: antipoverty, hyperactive, operatively, partitively, privatively. | |
+5 letters: absorptivity, hyperactives, imperatively, overcapacity, pejoratively, supergravity, supravitally, vituperatory. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 41 56 49 54 59 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. .- ...- .. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01000001 01010110 01001001 01010100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R A V I T Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0041 0056 0049 0054 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50523556435459 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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