depravity

Meanings

Plural: depravities

Noun

• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
  • "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"
• a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
• The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
• A particular depraved act or trait.
• Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.

Synonyms

corruption, degeneracy, depravation, putrefaction, turpitude, wickedness

Related Words

depravation, depravedness