'Depravation' definitions:
Definition of 'depravation'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction]
Definition of 'Depravation'
From: GCIDE
- Depravation \Dep`ra*va"tion\ (d[e^]p`r[.a]*v[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. depravitio, from depravare: cf. F. d['e]pravation. See Deprave.]
- 1. Detraction; depreciation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity. [1913 Webster]
- The depravation of his moral character destroyed his judgment. --Sir G. C. Lewis. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Med.) Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
- Syn: Depravity; corruption. See Depravity. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'depravation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- abjection,
- comedown,
- corruptedness,
- corruption,
- corruptness,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- demoralization,
- demotion,
- depravedness,
- depravity,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- deterioration,
- devolution,
- dissoluteness,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dying,
- ebb,
- effeteness,
- fading,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- involution,
- lapse,
- loss of tone,
- moral pollution,
- moral turpitude,
- profligacy,
- regression,
- reprobacy,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- rottenness,
- slippage,
- slump,
- turpitude,
- wane