Associations to the word «Depravity»

Wiktionary

DEPRAVITY, noun. (uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
DEPRAVITY, noun. (countable) A particular depraved act or trait.
DEPRAVITY, noun. (uncountable) (Christian theology) Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.

Dictionary definition

DEPRAVITY, noun. Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction".
DEPRAVITY, noun. A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; "the various turpitudes of modern society".

Wise words

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.