perversion

English

Etymology

From Latin perversio, from pervertere (“corrupt”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən

Noun

perversion (countable and uncountable, plural perversions)

1. The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.
2. The state of being perverted; depravity; vice.
3. Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. , volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 61–62:

     After all, the great error in human judgment is not so much wilful perversion, as that we judge according to situation, and always make that situation our own; while the chances are, that we really have not one thought, feeling, or habit, in common with those on whom we yet think ourselves qualified to decide.

4. A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance.
5. (geometry) Tendril perversion.

Antonyms

• normophilia

Related terms

• perverse
• pervert
• perverted
• pervertedness

Translations

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} perversie (nl)
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} pervêrzija f
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} sapıklık (tr) sapkınlık (tr)

Anagrams

• overripens

Finnish

Noun

perversion

1. genitive singular of perversio

French

Etymology

From Latin perversiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/

Noun

perversion f (plural perversions)

1. perversion

Related terms

• pervertir

Further reading

• “perversion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Swedish

Noun

perversion c

1. (countable, uncountable) perversion (especially sexual perversion)

Declension

Related terms

• pervers (“perverted”)
• pervo (“perv”)

See also

• parafili (“paraphilia”)
• snuskhummer (“perv”)

References

• perversion in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• perversion in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• perversion in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)