Synonyms for depravity
dɪˈpræv ɪ tide·prav·i·ty

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1. depravitynoun

   Synonyms:
   wickedness

2. depravitynoun

   The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.

   Synonyms:
   wickedness

3. depravitynoun

   A particular depraved act or trait.

   Synonyms:
   wickedness

4. depravitynoun

   Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.

   Synonyms:
   wickedness

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1. depravity

   Sin is any lack of holiness, any defect of moral purity and truth, whether in heart or life, whether of commission or omission. "All unrighteousness is sin," 1 John v, 17. Transgression, as its etymology indicates, is the stepping over a specific enactment, whether of God or man, ordinarily by overt act, but in the broadest sense, in volition or desire. Sin may be either act or state; transgression is always an act, mental or physical. Crime is often used for a flagrant violation of right, but in the technical sense denotes specific violation of human law. Guilt is desert of and exposure to punishment because of sin. Depravity denotes not any action, but a perverted moral condition from which any act of sin may proceed. Sin in the generic sense, as denoting a state of heart, is synonymous with depravity; in the specific sense, as in the expression a sin, the term may be synonymous with transgression, crime, offense, misdeed, etc., or may denote some moral activity that could not be characterized by terms so positive. Immorality denotes outward violation of the moral law. Sin is thus the broadest word, and immorality next in scope; all crimes, properly so called, and all immoralities, are sins; but there may be sin, as ingratitude, which is neither crime, transgression, nor immorality; and there may be immorality which is not crime, as falsehood. Compare CRIMINAL.

   Compare synonyms for VIRTUE.

   Synonyms:
   crime, criminality, delinquency, evil, fault, guilt, ill-doing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, sin, transgression, ungodliness, unrighteousness, vice, viciousness, wickedness, wrong, wrong-doing

   Antonyms:
   blamelessness, excellence, godliness, goodness, holiness, innocence, integrity, morality, purity, rectitude, right, righteousness, sinlessness, uprightness, virtue

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1. corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefactionnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   putrescence, rottenness, rot, subversion, decadency, decadence, rotting, putrefaction, degeneracy, turpitude, putridness, depravation, decomposition, corruption, degeneration, corruptness

2. depravity, turpitudenoun

   a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice

   "the various turpitudes of modern society"

   Synonyms:
   corruption, putrefaction, turpitude, degeneracy, depravation

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1. depravitynoun

   Synonyms:
   corruption, wickedness, viciousness, demoralization, vice, degeneracy

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1. List of paraphrases for "depravity":

   perversion, debauchery

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1. Pat Boone:

   Christianity imposes restriction on behavior, even in movies, hollywood doesn’t like it when people tell them to stick to moral rules because it makes a lot of money breaking those rules. Orgies, vampires, zombies, debauchery of all forms. Anything goes, and it is liberal Democrats who are making these films. Depravity is profitable.

2. Valerie Amos:

   ISIL's (Islamic State) advance brings with it new depths of depravity to Syria with indiscriminate killing and maiming, raping and destroying, they have forcibly recruited children and made the delivery of humanitarian assistance more and more difficult.

3. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   Power without morality leads to abuse, and freedom without morality leads to depravity.

4. The Catechism:

   Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that 'homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,' they are contrary to the natural law.

5. Phil Robertson:

   When a fellow like me looks at the landscape and sees the depravity, the perversion -- redefining marriage and telling us that marriage is not between a man and a woman? Come on Iowa! it is nonsense. It is evil. It's wicked. It's sinful.