depravity
noun/dɪˈprævəti/
/dɪˈprævəti/
[uncountable, countable] (formal)- the state of being morally bad; morally bad acts synonym wickedness
- a life of depravity
- descriptions of her alleged depravities
Word Originmid 17th cent.: alteration (influenced by deprave) of obsolete pravity, from Latin pravitas, from pravus ‘crooked, perverse’.
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