Perversion

Noun

 * 1) The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.
 * 2) The state of being perverted; depravity; viciousness.
 * 3) A sexual practice or act considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality.
 * 4) An instance of such abnormal activity or behaviour; rape.

Related terms

 * perverse
 * pervert
 * perverted
 * pervertedness

Adjectives for Perversion
horrible; abominable; monstrous; palpable sexual; wilful.

Verbs for Perversion
practise—; resort to—; uncover—; unravct —; —abuses; —blemishes; —corrupts; — decimates; —defiles; —distorts; —impairs; —infects;  —misdirects;   —misleads;   — poisons; —warps; —-weakens; —misinterprets.

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

Etymology
From perversio:, from pervertere:

Translations

 * Dutch: perversie
 * Dutch: perversie


 * Slovene:
 * Turkish: sapıklık

Anagrams

 * overripens

Noun
perversion