'Perversity' definitions:
Definition of 'perversity'
(from WordNet)
noun
Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline [syn: contrariness, perversity, perverseness]
noun
Deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism" [syn: perversity, perverseness]
Definition of 'Perversity'
From: GCIDE
- Perversity \Per*ver"si*ty\, n. [L. perversitas: cf. F. perversit['e].] The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'perversity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- antithesis,
- bearishness,
- bitchiness,
- cantankerousness,
- churlishness,
- clashing,
- collision,
- conflict,
- confrontation,
- contradiction,
- contradistinction,
- contraindication,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrariness,
- contrast,
- counterposition,
- crabbedness,
- crankiness,
- cross-purposes,
- crossness,
- crustiness,
- cussedness,
- difficultness,
- disagreeability,
- disagreement,
- discrepancy,
- dourness,
- excitability,
- fractiousness,
- frowardness,
- hostility,
- huffiness,
- huffishness,
- inconsistency,
- inimicalness,
- irascibility,
- irritability,
- meanness,
- oppositeness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- orneriness,
- perverseness,
- perversite,
- polarity,
- repugnance,
- showdown,
- snappishness,
- stuffiness,
- sulkiness,
- sullenness,
- testiness,
- ugliness,
- waspishness,
- waywardness,
- wrongheadedness