'Perversion' definitions:
Definition of 'perversion'
(from WordNet)
noun
A curve that reverses the direction of something; "the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion"; "perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords"
noun
An aberrant sexual practice; [syn: perversion, sexual perversion]
noun
The action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice"
Definition of 'Perversion'
From: GCIDE
- Perversion \Per*ver"sion\, n. [L. perversio: cf. F. perversion. See Pervert.] The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws." --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'perversion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- abstractionism,
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- abuse of terms,
- adulteration,
- apparent soundness,
- befouling,
- befoulment,
- casuistry,
- catachresis,
- circularity,
- college of Laputa,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- contamination,
- contorting,
- conversion,
- corrupt administration,
- corruption,
- debasement,
- debauchery,
- defalcation,
- defectiveness,
- defilement,
- deformation,
- delusion,
- depravity,
- desecration,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- diversion,
- eisegesis,
- embezzlement,
- envenoming,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- evasive reasoning,
- exaggeration,
- expressionism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falseness,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- festering,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- fouling,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- hyperbole,
- illusion,
- inaccuracy,
- infection,
- injustice,
- insincerity,
- irregularity,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- kink,
- litotes,
- maladministration,
- malentendu,
- malfeasance,
- malobservation,
- malpractice,
- malversation,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- misappropriation,
- miscitation,
- miscoloring,
- misconception,
- misconduct,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misdoing,
- misdrawing,
- misemployment,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misfeasance,
- misguidance,
- mishandling,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- mismanagement,
- mispainting,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misreport,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misteaching,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- mystification,
- nonrealism,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- overdrawing,
- overstatement,
- oversubtlety,
- peccancy,
- peculation,
- perjury,
- philosophism,
- pilfering,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- poisoning,
- pollution,
- poor stewardship,
- prevarication,
- profanation,
- prostitution,
- psychopathia sexualis,
- psychosexual disorder,
- rationalization,
- self-contradiction,
- sex crime,
- sexual abnormality,
- sexual deviance,
- sexual deviation,
- sexual pathology,
- sexual perversion,
- sexual psychopathy,
- sidetracking,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- slanting,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squeezing,
- straining,
- subtlety,
- subversion,
- suppuration,
- torturing,
- twisting,
- understatement,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- vice,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- violation,
- vitiation,
- wrenching,
- wrong,
- wrongness