perversion
noun
[ pəˈvəːʃ(ə)n ]
• distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
• "the thing which most disturbed him was the perversion of language and truth"
Similar:
distortion,
misrepresentation,
falsification,
travesty,
misinterpretation,
misconstruction,
twisting,
corruption,
subversion,
misuse,
misapplication,
debasement,
• sexual behaviour that is considered abnormal and unacceptable.
• "his book revolutionized ideas about sexual perversion"
Similar:
deviance,
deviancy,
deviation,
unnaturalness,
corruption,
depravity,
degeneracy,
debauchery,
vice,
wickedness,
immorality,
aberration,
abnormality,
perversity,
irregularity,
kinkiness,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin perversio(n- ), from the verb pervertere ‘turn about’ (see pervert).
