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Definitions: Perversion |
PerversionNoun1. An aberrant sexual practice that is preferred to normal intercourse. 2. The action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "perversion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
Etymology: Perversion \Per*ver"sion\, noun. [Latin expression perversio: compare to the French expression perversion. See Pervert.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A turning aside from the normal course; a morbid alteration of function which may occur in emotional, intellectual, or volitional fields. In psychiatry, sexual deviation. (references) |
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Synonym: PerversionSynonym: sexual perversion (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy. |
Falsehood | Perversion of truth, suppression of truth; suppressio veri; perversion, distortion, false coloring; exaggeration; prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud; suggestio falsi; (lie); mystification; (concealment); simulation; (imitation); dissimulation, dissembling; deceit; blague. |
Impiety | Hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation. |
Misinterpretation | Misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration; false coloring, false construction; abuse of terms; parody, travesty; falsification; (lying). |
Misteaching | Noun: misteaching, misinformaton, misintelligence, misguidance, misdirection, mispersuasion, misinstruction, misleading;Verb: perversion, false teaching; sophistry; college of Laputa; the blind leading the blind. |
Reasoning, | Sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet, quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness; Adjective: nonsense; word sense, tongue sense. |
Sexuality | Perversion, deviation, sexual abnormality; fetish, fetishism; homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality; sodomy, buggery; pederasty; sadism. masochism, sado-masochism; incest. |
Untruth | Forgery, fabrication, invention; misstatement, misrepresentation; perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi; exaggeration. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Perversion |
| English words defined with "perversion": Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, corruption ♦ de Sade, degeneracy, Depravation, depravity ♦ Marquis de Sade ♦ Pravity ♦ Sade, sexual perversion, Spiritual death ♦ Unpervert ♦ voyeurism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "perversion": Dog-cheap ♦ Hugh Perry ♦ John Company ♦ Knots of May ♦ Pagan Works of Art, PETSCII, Poor Jack. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Perversion" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (perversion), French (corruption, depravity, kink, perversion), German (perversion). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion. (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) This is a perversion of every natural law! (The Time Machine; writing credit: H.G. Wells; David Duncan) Beyond Perversion! (The Kentucky Fried Movie; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) I hate it! It's boil-in-the-bag perversion for sexually repressed accountants and first-year drama students with too many posters of Betty Blue, The Blues Brothers, Big Blue and Blue Velvet on their blue bloody walls! (Spaced; writing credit: Simon Pegg; Jessica Stevenson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Tango de la perversion (1973) Perversion (1996) Eros Perversion (1979) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Auch wenn die Perversion die Macht hat, Ingrid Schubert lebt hier in unseren Herzen.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Joseph Addison | No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. |
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| "Perversion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perversion" is used about 105 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% | 105 | 31,781 |
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Expression using "perversion": sexual perversion. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "perversion": perversion-targeting. | |
Ending with "perversion": self-perversion. | |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
perversion | 139 | dog perversion | 3 |
animal perversion | 43 | bizarre perversion pic | 3 |
perversion sexual | 32 | perversion russian | 3 |
perversion sex | 13 | moon perversion sailor | 3 |
glossary perversion | 8 | bizarre perversion | 2 |
bbw free perversion | 8 | anal perversion | 2 |
extreme perversion | 7 | eugenie the story of her journey into perversion | 2 |
hollywood perversion | 5 | perversion taste | 2 |
club perversion | 5 | perversion sexuelle | 2 |
absolut perversion sex | 5 | perversion story | 2 |
perversion sexe | 4 | curious perversion sophies | 2 |
perversion teen | 4 | house perversion | 2 |
maximum perversion | 4 | dirty perversion | 2 |
perversion porn | 4 | ||
dirty perversion | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "perversion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zvetënim (degeneration, perversity), shtrembërim (contortion, defacement, deflection, deflexion, deformation, distortion, misrepresentation, mutilation, warp), çoroditje (anility, confusion, corruption, dissipation, embarrassment, perversity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فساد (blight, corruption, decay, decomposition, degeneration, depravation, depravity, deterioration, disintegration, dry rot, immorality, invalidity, perversity, putrefaction, putridity, rot, rottenness), تشويه (defacement, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, falsification, malformation, misrepresentation, torture, warp), الانحراف, إفساد (circumvention, depravation, deterioration, disfiguration, infection, mutilation, vitiation), إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversity, sheer, sidetrack, swerve, tangency, twist), إساءة إستعمال (abuse), شكل منحرف من كذا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | перверзия (perversity), извращение (contortion, violence), извратеност (depravation, depravity, warp of the mind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 反常行为. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | převrácení (overturn), překroucení (distortion), zkaženost (badness, cariosity, corruption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | perversion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | perversie, perversiteit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | انحراف جنسی یااخلاقی , انحراف (Corruption, Deflexion, Departure, Detour, Deviance, Digression, Inclination, Invert, Leeway, Offset, Refraction, Skew, Slope, Veer, Yaw), بدراهی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vääristely (misrepresentation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | perversion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Perversion, verdrehung (adjusting, contortion, cricking, distortion, misrepresentation, peversion, rolling, spraining, torsion, twisting, wrenching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαστροφή (aberrance, distortion, misrepresentation, perverseness, prevarication, torsion, twist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שחיתות (corruption, decadence, degeneracy, demoralization, depravity, immorality, perversity, turpitude), עוות (contortion, falsification, warp), סלוף (distortion, falsity, garbling, twist), סטיה (aberration, bias, deflection, deviation, digression, divagation, diversion, swerve), סרה (rebellion, revolt, transgression), נליזה. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fajtalanság (lechery, lubricity, perverseness, perversity), elferdítés (distortion, misrepresentation, sophistication, twist), perverzió, kiforgatás (twist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | perbuatan tak wajar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | perversione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 倒錯 (inversion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あくよう (abuse, misuse), わいきょく (distortion, falsification, torture), とうさく (inversion, plagiarism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 곡해. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cleayney (attract, bank, circumvent, decoy, deviate, dispose, distort, distortion, diversion, divert, draw off, incline, induce, influence, inveigle, list, penchant, persuasion, predilection, predispose, recede, seduce, stoop, tend, tend as garden, trend, vamp, veer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erversionpay perversão, perversão, que persiste no erro, depravação (abuse, depravation, depravity, turpitude, vice). (various references) perversiune (perversity), stricare (corruption, impairment, spoilage), denaturare (corruption, distortion, misrepresentation, sophistication, warp). (various references) извращение (inversion). (various references) perverzija (perversity), razvrat (debauch, debauchery, vice), izopačenost (depravity, perverseness, perversity). (various references) perversión (depravity, kink). (various references) perversitet, onaturlighet (morbidity), förvrängning (distortion, misrepresentation). (various references) yoldan çıkarma, saptırma (distortion, diversion, vitiation), sapma (bias, declension, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, drift, excursion, inequality, lapse, obliqueness, obliquity, refracting, refractive, spread, swing, turn, warp), sapıklık (aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, heresy, perversity), bozma (annulment, breach, breaking, cancel, cancellation, changing, corruption, defacement, dislocation, dissolution, exchange, impairment, infraction, infringement, mutilation, obliteration, ruining, spoiling, stain, violation, vitiation), anormallik (aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, abnormity, anomaly), çarpıklık (cast, crookedness, distortion, irregularity, obliqueness, skew, tortuosity, warp, wryness). (various references) відхилення від норми (obliqueness, obliquity), перекручення (distortion, garble, mutilation, wrench). (various references) sự xuyên tạc sự hư hỏng, sự lầm đường, sự làm sai, sự hiểu sai (misapprehension, misconception, misconstruction, misinterpretation), sự dùng sai (misapplication, misusage, misuse), sự đồi truỵ (debauch), sự đồi bại (pravity). (various references) gwyrdro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Ecclesiastes Chapter 5, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ean sukofantian penhtoV kai arpaghn krimatoV kai dikaiosunhV idhV en cwra mh qaumashV epi tw pragmati oti uyhloV epanw uyhlou fulaxai kai uyhloi ep' autouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Si videris calumnias egenorum et violenta iudicia et subverti iustitiam in provincia non mireris super hoc negotio quia excelso alius excelsior est et super hos quoque eminentiores sunt alii |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | If thou shalt seen wronge chalengis of nedi men, and violent domes, and riytwisnesse to be turned vpso doun in prouynce, wndre thou not vp on this nede; for than the heey an other is heyere, and vp on these othere also ben heyere stondende; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | \5:8\If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, wonder not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there are higher than they. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they. |
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| Language | Ecclesiastes Chapter 5, Verse 7 |
| Cebuano | Kay diha sa daghan nga mga damgo adunay mga kakawangan, ug diha sa daghang mga pulong: apan mahadlok ka sa Dios. |
| Croatian | Ako vidiš gdje tlaèe siromaha i gaze pravo i pravicu u zemlji, ne èudi se tomu, jer nad visokim straži viši, a nad njim najviši. |
| Danish | Når du ser den fattige undertrykt og Lov og Ret krænket på din Egn, så undre dig ikke over den Ting; thi på den høje vogter en højere, og andre endnu højere vogter på dem begge. |
| Finnish | Jos näet köyhää sorrettavan sekä oikeutta ja vanhurskautta poljettavan maakunnassa, niin älä sitä asiaa ihmettele; sillä ylhäistä vartioitsee vielä ylhäisempi, ja sitäkin ylhäisemmät heitä molempia. |
| German | Wo viel Träume sind, da ist Eitelkeit und viel Worte; aber fürchte du Gott. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Apabila di tempat hukum engkau melihat orang miskin teraniaya dan adalat dan kebenaran dijadikan rampasan, jangan engkau tercengang-cengang akan perbuatan yang demikian, karena Satu, yang tinggi dari pada segala ketinggian itu, ada mengamat-amatinya, dan Allah taalapun di atas sekaliannya. |
| Maori | Na konei tenei mea, na te maha o nga rekanga kanohi, o nga horihori, o nga korero maha; ko koe ia kia wehi i te Atua. |
| Norwegian | Om du ser at den fattige undertrykkes, og at rett og rettferdighet tredes under føtter i landet, så undre dig ikke over den ting! For den som er høitstående, har en høiere til å vokte på sig, og en høieste vokter på dem begge. |
| Portuguese | Porque na multidão dos sonhos há vaidades e muitas palavras; mas tu teme a Deus. |
| Rumanian | Cqci, dacq este dewertqciune kn mulyimea visurilor, nu mai puyin este wi kn mulyimea vorbelor; de aceea, teme-te de Dumnezeu. |
| Spanish | Porque cuando hay muchos sueños, también hay vanidades y muchas palabras. Pero tú, teme a Dios. |
| Swedish | Om du ser att den fattige förtryckes, och att rätt och rättfärdighet våldföres i landet, så förundra dig icke däröver; ty på den höge vaktar en högre, och andra ännu högre vakta på dem båda. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "perversion": perversions. (additional references) | |
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"Perversion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Perberton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "perversion" (pronounced perver"zhun) |
| 5 | -v er" zh u n | aversion, conversion, diversion, inversion, reversion, subversion, version. |
| 4 | -er" zh u n | aspersion, dispersion, excursion, immersion, incursion, submersion. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, allusion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, corrosion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, division, envision, equation, erosion, evasion, excision, exclusion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, implosion, incision, inclusion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, invasion, lesion, misprision, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, revision, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, supervision, television, transfusion, vision. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: reversion. | |
-2 letters: eversion, isoprene, overripe, overspin, pioneers, prerinse, previsor, prisoner, repiners, reproves, ripeners, roperies, verniers. | |
-3 letters: enviers, erepsin, erosive, inverse, ironers, nervier, onerier, openers, orpines, pensive, peonies, pereion, perries, perrons, pioneer, pornier, previse, prisere, prosier, provers, reivers, renvois, reopens, repiner, repines, reposer, reprise, reprove, rerisen, respire, reverso, reviser, revisor, rievers, ripener, veiners, venires. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: perversions. | |
+2 letters: irresponsive, preservation. | |
+3 letters: corresponsive, overspreading, perseveration, preservations, reprovisioned, unprogressive. | |
+4 letters: cryopreserving, nonprogressive, overimpressing, overpersuading, overpersuasion, overprocessing, overresponding, perseverations, prerevisionist, protrusiveness. | |
+5 letters: antiprogressive, hyperresponsive, interoperatives, nonprogressives, overcompressing, overpersuasions, overprescribing, overprotections, prerevisionists, preservationist, progressiveness. | |
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