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Definitions: Depravity |
DepravityNoun1. Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles: "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity". 2. A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice: "the various turpitudes of modern society". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "depravity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Depravity \De*prav"i*ty\, noun. [From Deprave: compare to Latin pravitas crookedness, perverseness.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DepravitySynonyms: corruption (n), degeneracy (n), turpitude (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Degeneracy, degeneration, degenerateness; degradation; depravation, depravement; devolution; depravity; demoralization, retrogression; masochism. |
Inexpedience | Badness; Adjective: peccancy, abomination; painfulness; pestilence; (disease); guilt; depravity. |
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. | |
Crosswords: Depravity |
| English words defined with "depravity": A marked man ♦ Corruption of blood ♦ Depravation, Depravedness, Depravement ♦ Gomorrah, Gomorrha ♦ malice aforethought ♦ offensive ♦ Pravity ♦ Socinianism ♦ total depravity ♦ violative, Vitiosity. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "depravity": Depravement. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | No depravity he wouldn't commit! (The Great Mouse Detective; writing credit: Ron Clements; Paul Galdone) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Depravity on the Danube (1993) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | What depravity! You will do justice, gentlemen of the jury, etc. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | That disposition to theft with which they have been branded, must be ascribed to their situation, and not to any depravity of the moral sense. |
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| "Depravity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Depravity" is used about 68 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% | 68 | 40,606 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "depravity": total depravity. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
depravity | 25 |
total depravity | 10 |
depravity hentai | 8 |
anime depravity | 5 |
depravity pic | 3 |
depravity man | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "depravity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shthurje (dissipation, laxity, lecherousness, lechery, profligacy, unbraiding, undoing, venery), prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), mëkatshmëri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فسوق (debauch, fornication, immorality, perversity, profligacy, sensuality), فساد (blight, corruption, decay, decomposition, degeneration, depravation, deterioration, disintegration, dry rot, immorality, invalidity, perversion, perversity, putrefaction, putridity, rot, rottenness), سفالة (baseness, ignobility, immorality, imprudence, lowness), إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, perversity, sheer, sidetrack, swerve, tangency, twist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | развратна постъпка (debauch), развала, греховност (peccability, peccancy, sin), порочност (irregularity, viciousness, wickedness), поквареност (corruption, corruptness, impurity), поквара (corruption, debauchery, gangrene, infamy, obliquity, rot, ruin, taint, ulcer), извратеност (depravation, perversion, warp of the mind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 邪恶 (Depravation, menacing, Wicked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zpustlost (debauchery), neřestnost (dissoluteness), mravní zkáza (dry rot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فساد (Corruption, Decadence, Decay, Degeneration, Immorality, Pus, Putrefaction, Spoil, Turpitude, Vice), هرزگی (Debauch, Debauchery, Incontinence, Lechery, Profligacy, Prurience, Ribaldry), تباهی (Decay, Degeneration, Destruction, Ruin, Ruination, Spoil), شرارت (Iniquity, Malfeasance, Mischief, Villainy), بدکرداری (Malfeasance, Misdeed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | turmelus (decay, decline, demoralization), tapainturmelus, mädännäisyys (putridity, rottenness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dépravation (depravation), perversion, corruption (decay, degeneration, depravation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verderbtheit (badness, corruption, corruptness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φαυλότητα (nefariousness, sinisterness, turpitude, unrighteousness, venality, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, villainy, wantonness, wickedness), εξαχρείωση (demoralization, sensualization), αισχρότητα (ignominiousness, indecency, obsceneness, obscenity, outrageousness, turpitude, uncleanness), διαφθορά (corruption, coruptness, depravation, turpitude, venality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שחיתות (corruption, decadence, degeneracy, demoralization, immorality, perversion, perversity, turpitude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | romlottság (corruption, corruptness, depravation, perversion, perversity, taint), gonoszság (evil, evildoing, evil-doing, iniquity, maleficence, mischief, mischievousness, monstrosity, monstruosity, viciousness, villainy, wickedness), züllöttség (corruption, filth, lewdness), perverzség, perverzitás (perverseness, perversity), lezüllés (depravation), istentelenség (impiety, ungodliness), elfajultság, elfajulás (aggravation, degeneration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kerusakan moral, kebejatan (damage, turpitude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | depravazione (depravation, vitiation, wickedness), corruttela (corruption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 腐敗 (decay), 落 (corruption, degradation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふはい (decay, invincibility), ふとく (immorality, lack of virtue, unworthiness, vice, woman's virtues), じ らく, らく (corruption, degradation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | trulleeaght, ard-olkys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epravityday depravação (abuse, depravation, perversion, turpitude, vice). (various references) depravare (corruption, debauchery, degradation, depravation, taint), corupţie (bribery, corruption, corruptness, rottenness, soil, taint, venality). (various references) развращенность (debauchery, salacity, turpitude), греховность (naughtiness, peccability), испорченность (corruption, naughtiness). (various references) izopačenost (perverseness, perversion, perversity). (various references) depravación (depravation, turpitude). (various references) depravation (depravation), sedefördärv (corruption, depravation). (various references) günahkârlık (depravation, guilt, guiltiness, sinfulness, wickedness), fesat (agitator, corruption, intrigue, jaundiced, low-minded, malice, mischief, plot, poisonous, sinister), ahlaksızlık (corruption, debauch, debauchery, depravation, dissoluteness, immorality, indecency, moral turpitude, rascality, turpitude, uncleanliness, vice, viciousness, wantonness), ahlâk bozukluğu (ulcer). (various references) розбещенність, аморальний вчинок, порочність (improbity, naughtiness, turpitude, viciousness). (various references) tình trạng suy đ"i (declension), tình trạng hư hỏng, sự sa đoạ h nh động đ"i bại, h nh động truỵ lạc, h nh động sa đoạ. (various references) llygredd (corruptness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | improbitas, pravitas, pravitate, pravitatem, pravitates. (various references) |
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"Depravity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: depravaty, deprivity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "depravity" (pronounced dupra"vutē) |
| 6 | -r a" v u t ē | gravity. |
| 5 | -a" v u t ē | cavity. |
| 4 | -v u t ē | activity, aggressivity, brevity, captivity, conductivity, connectivity, creativity, exclusivity, expressivity, festivity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, inactivity, insensitivity, levity, longevity, nativity, negativity, objectivity, oversensitivity, passivity, proclivity, productivity, progressivity, radioactivity, reactivity, receptivity, reflexivity, relativity, retroactivity, selectivity, sensitivity, subjectivity, superconductivity, velvety. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, causality, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, necessity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, profanity, profitability, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, readability, reality, reciprocity, regularity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, suitability, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-p-r-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: dietary, diptera, partied, pirated, private, variety. | |
-3 letters: advert, airted, dative, depart, diaper, divert, drapey, paired, pardie, parity, parted, petard, pirate, prated, prayed, privet, pyrite, redipt, repaid, tirade, trepid, typier, varied, verity. | |
-4 letters: adept, aider, aired, aiver, apery, apter, atrip, avert, dairy, dater, davit, deair, deary, deity, derat, deray, diary, dirty, diver, drape, drave. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-p-r-t-v-y" | |
+4 letters: predicatively. | |
+5 letters: providentially. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100001 01110110 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e p r a v i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0070 0072 0061 0076 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387182846788758691 |
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