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perversion
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See also: perversión
English
Etymology
From Latin perversio, from pervertere (“corrupt”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
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Translations
action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement
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state of being perverted; depravity; vice
sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality
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Finnish
Noun
perversion
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin perversiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
perversion f (plural perversions)
- perversion
- Synonym: perversité
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Further reading
- “perversion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Noun
perversion c
- (countable, uncountable) perversion (especially sexual perversion)
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See also
- parafili (“paraphilia”)
- snuskhummer (“perv”)
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