'Debauchery' definitions:
Definition of 'debauchery'
(from WordNet)
noun
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
Definition of 'Debauchery'
From: GCIDE
- Debauchery \De*bauch"er*y\, n.; pl. Debaucheries.
- 1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance. [1913 Webster]
- The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness. [1913 Webster]
- Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance. --Sprat. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'debauchery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- carousal,
- carouse,
- debauch,
- debauchment,
- dissipation,
- dissoluteness,
- fastness,
- free living,
- gallantry,
- high living,
- killing pace,
- libertinage,
- libertinism,
- license,
- licentiousness,
- orgy,
- profligacy,
- rakishness,
- riotous living,
- saturnalia,
- unbridledness,
- venery,
- wenching,
- whoring,
- wildness