perversion

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

perversion (countable and uncountable, plural perversions)

The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.
The state of being perverted; depravity; vice.
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.
A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance.
(geometry) Tendril perversion.

action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement

state of being perverted; depravity; vice

Armenian: այլասերում (hy) (aylaserum), այլասերվածություն (hy) (aylaservacutʻyun)
Greek: διαστροφή (el) f (diastrofí)
Hebrew: סְטִיָּה (he) f (stiyá)
Russian: извращённость f (izvraščónnostʹ)

sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality

French: perversion (fr)
Greek: διαστροφή (el) f (diastrofí)
Hindi: विपर्यास (hi) (viparyās), कुरुचि (kuruci), विकार (hi) (vikār), विकृति (hi) (vikŕti)
Russian: извраще́ние (ru) n (izvraščénije), перве́рсия (ru) f (pervérsija)

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