Definition of depravity in English:

depravity

nounPlural depravities dɪˈpravɪtidəˈprævədi

mass noun

1Moral corruption; wickedness.
堕落，腐化，道德败坏
a tale of depravity hard to credit
难以置信的邪恶与腐败行为的故事。
count noun I wondered what depravities had occurred in that place
Example sentencesExamples
- If people wish to wallow in a cesspool of moral depravity, then they can visit a theatre and ogle the kind of actors that perform such plays.
- Yet, his department wants to make a statement about what he must see as moral depravity.
- He incessantly denounced the moral depravity of leading politicians.
- No one, regardless of their moral depravity, should be denied medical care, but neither should moral depravity be condoned and tolerated.
- Urban poverty was itself a serious problem, but many activists were concerned more specifically with the plight of children who were exposed to such an environment of material deprivation and moral depravity.
- He insinuates himself into party after party, observing a parade of gauche behavior, depravity, and selfishness.
- Of course, the indiscipline and depravity was very evident too.
- The neighborhood's ‘infamy was so well known, that out-of-town visitors went there to see its depravities.’
- Set in a surrealist netherworld where eccentricities meet anarchy, the play plummets the audience into a landscape of Dali's well known paintings and into the depths and depravities of the artist's own subconscious.
- However, he rapidly descended into delightfully funny self-deprecating rants, characterised by frequent bouts of moral depravity.
- One can avoid pornography on the market, but everyone pays for the depravities of the political class.
- The level of judgment is tied to the level of depravity that occurred.
- In the vehemence of their indignation, the general public somewhat forget that poverty and affluence can be equally conducive to moral depravity.
- Even the program book's supplementary material avoids any mention of the depravities endured there.
- These are well known and their depravities thoroughly discussed.
- How does one begin to comprehend, let alone treat with, this kind of moral depravity?
- Callous hunters are now presented as the personification of moral depravity.
- The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
- His work of this time conveyed disgust at the horrors of war and the depravities of a decadent society with unerring psychological insight and devastating emotional effect.
- To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity.
Synonyms
corruption, corruptness, vice, perversion, pervertedness, deviance, degeneracy, degradation, immorality, shamelessness, debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, turpitude, loucheness, profligacy, licentiousness, lewdness, lasciviousness, salaciousness, lechery, lecherousness, prurience, obscenity, indecency, libertinism, sordidness
wickedness, sinfulness, vileness, baseness, iniquity, nefariousness, criminality, viciousness, brutality, brutishness
informal perviness
rare vitiation
1. 1.1Christian Theology The innate corruption of human nature, due to original sin.
  〔基督教神学〕（人性中源于原罪的）固有堕落本性
  Example sentencesExamples
  The author, opposing any doctrine of natural depravity, argued that all children are born ‘innocent,’ that is, equally capable of vice or virtue.
  His highlighting of the paradoxes arising from human free will, creativity and depravity made me keen to read on.
  Therefore a God-given moral absolute is necessarily applied and essential to the well being of the human species, given the depravity of human nature as it presently stands.
  We are all sinners who have been deeply wounded by the stain of our depravity, and we are nowhere more vulnerable and given to temptation than in the sexual dimensions of our being.
  The doctrines of original sin or inherent human depravity would be examples of theism in its more extreme forms.
  Synonyms
  sin, sinfulness, ungodliness, unrighteousness, profanity, impiety, impurity

Origin

Mid 17th century: alteration (influenced by deprave) of obsolete pravity, from Latin pravitas, from pravus 'crooked, perverse'.

Rhymes

cavity, concavity, gravity

Definition of depravity in US English:

depravity

noundəˈprævədidəˈpravədē

1Moral corruption; wickedness.
堕落，腐化，道德败坏
a tale of wickedness and depravity
难以置信的邪恶与腐败行为的故事。
Example sentencesExamples
- His work of this time conveyed disgust at the horrors of war and the depravities of a decadent society with unerring psychological insight and devastating emotional effect.
- If people wish to wallow in a cesspool of moral depravity, then they can visit a theatre and ogle the kind of actors that perform such plays.
- Set in a surrealist netherworld where eccentricities meet anarchy, the play plummets the audience into a landscape of Dali's well known paintings and into the depths and depravities of the artist's own subconscious.
- The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
- No one, regardless of their moral depravity, should be denied medical care, but neither should moral depravity be condoned and tolerated.
- However, he rapidly descended into delightfully funny self-deprecating rants, characterised by frequent bouts of moral depravity.
- To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity.
- The level of judgment is tied to the level of depravity that occurred.
- Urban poverty was itself a serious problem, but many activists were concerned more specifically with the plight of children who were exposed to such an environment of material deprivation and moral depravity.
- One can avoid pornography on the market, but everyone pays for the depravities of the political class.
- These are well known and their depravities thoroughly discussed.
- He insinuates himself into party after party, observing a parade of gauche behavior, depravity, and selfishness.
- He incessantly denounced the moral depravity of leading politicians.
- Yet, his department wants to make a statement about what he must see as moral depravity.
- Of course, the indiscipline and depravity was very evident too.
- In the vehemence of their indignation, the general public somewhat forget that poverty and affluence can be equally conducive to moral depravity.
- Even the program book's supplementary material avoids any mention of the depravities endured there.
- How does one begin to comprehend, let alone treat with, this kind of moral depravity?
- The neighborhood's ‘infamy was so well known, that out-of-town visitors went there to see its depravities.’
- Callous hunters are now presented as the personification of moral depravity.
Synonyms
corruption, corruptness, vice, perversion, pervertedness, deviance, degeneracy, degradation, immorality, shamelessness, debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, turpitude, loucheness, profligacy, licentiousness, lewdness, lasciviousness, salaciousness, lechery, lecherousness, prurience, obscenity, indecency, libertinism, sordidness
1. 1.1 A wicked or morally corrupt act.
  堕落行为，邪恶行为
  Example sentencesExamples
  It seems as if his party simply won't stop at any depravity.
  Kevin looked at the depravity by the doorway and nodded silently.
  He daringly threw his body over hers to stop the depravity.
  The author traces the child protection movement to a time when child abuse was seen as a depravity of the immigrant poor.
  Who knows where this morally outrageous depravity might lead?
  Synonyms
  corruption, corruptness, vice, perversion, pervertedness, deviance, degeneracy, degradation, immorality, shamelessness, debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, turpitude, loucheness, profligacy, licentiousness, lewdness, lasciviousness, salaciousness, lechery, lecherousness, prurience, obscenity, indecency, libertinism, sordidness
2. 1.2Christian Theology The innate corruption of human nature, due to original sin.
  〔基督教神学〕（人性中源于原罪的）固有堕落本性
  Example sentencesExamples
  The author, opposing any doctrine of natural depravity, argued that all children are born ‘innocent,’ that is, equally capable of vice or virtue.
  The doctrines of original sin or inherent human depravity would be examples of theism in its more extreme forms.
  We are all sinners who have been deeply wounded by the stain of our depravity, and we are nowhere more vulnerable and given to temptation than in the sexual dimensions of our being.
  His highlighting of the paradoxes arising from human free will, creativity and depravity made me keen to read on.
  Therefore a God-given moral absolute is necessarily applied and essential to the well being of the human species, given the depravity of human nature as it presently stands.
  Synonyms
  sin, sinfulness, ungodliness, unrighteousness, profanity, impiety, impurity

Origin

Mid 17th century: alteration (influenced by deprave) of obsolete pravity, from Latin pravitas, from pravus ‘crooked, perverse’.

词汇	depravity
释义	Definition of depravity in English: depravity nounPlural depravities dɪˈpravɪtidəˈprævədi mass noun 1Moral corruption; wickedness. 堕落，腐化，道德败坏 a tale of depravity hard to credit 难以置信的邪恶与腐败行为的故事。 count noun I wondered what depravities had occurred in that place Example sentencesExamples If people wish to wallow in a cesspool of moral depravity, then they can visit a theatre and ogle the kind of actors that perform such plays. Yet, his department wants to make a statement about what he must see as moral depravity. He incessantly denounced the moral depravity of leading politicians. No one, regardless of their moral depravity, should be denied medical care, but neither should moral depravity be condoned and tolerated. Urban poverty was itself a serious problem, but many activists were concerned more specifically with the plight of children who were exposed to such an environment of material deprivation and moral depravity. He insinuates himself into party after party, observing a parade of gauche behavior, depravity, and selfishness. Of course, the indiscipline and depravity was very evident too. The neighborhood's ‘infamy was so well known, that out-of-town visitors went there to see its depravities.’ Set in a surrealist netherworld where eccentricities meet anarchy, the play plummets the audience into a landscape of Dali's well known paintings and into the depths and depravities of the artist's own subconscious. However, he rapidly descended into delightfully funny self-deprecating rants, characterised by frequent bouts of moral depravity. One can avoid pornography on the market, but everyone pays for the depravities of the political class. The level of judgment is tied to the level of depravity that occurred. In the vehemence of their indignation, the general public somewhat forget that poverty and affluence can be equally conducive to moral depravity. Even the program book's supplementary material avoids any mention of the depravities endured there. These are well known and their depravities thoroughly discussed. How does one begin to comprehend, let alone treat with, this kind of moral depravity? Callous hunters are now presented as the personification of moral depravity. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible. His work of this time conveyed disgust at the horrors of war and the depravities of a decadent society with unerring psychological insight and devastating emotional effect. To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity. Synonyms corruption, corruptness, vice, perversion, pervertedness, deviance, degeneracy, degradation, immorality, shamelessness, debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, turpitude, loucheness, profligacy, licentiousness, lewdness, lasciviousness, salaciousness, lechery, lecherousness, prurience, obscenity, indecency, libertinism, sordidness wickedness, sinfulness, vileness, baseness, iniquity, nefariousness, criminality, viciousness, brutality, brutishness informal perviness rare vitiation 1.1Christian Theology The innate corruption of human nature, due to original sin. 〔基督教神学〕（人性中源于原罪的）固有堕落本性 Example sentencesExamples The author, opposing any doctrine of natural depravity, argued that all children are born ‘innocent,’ that is, equally capable of vice or virtue. His highlighting of the paradoxes arising from human free will, creativity and depravity made me keen to read on. Therefore a God-given moral absolute is necessarily applied and essential to the well being of the human species, given the depravity of human nature as it presently stands. We are all sinners who have been deeply wounded by the stain of our depravity, and we are nowhere more vulnerable and given to temptation than in the sexual dimensions of our being. The doctrines of original sin or inherent human depravity would be examples of theism in its more extreme forms. Synonyms sin, sinfulness, ungodliness, unrighteousness, profanity, impiety, impurity Origin Mid 17th century: alteration (influenced by deprave) of obsolete pravity, from Latin pravitas, from pravus 'crooked, perverse'. Rhymes cavity, concavity, gravity Definition of depravity in US English: depravity noundəˈprævədidəˈpravədē 1Moral corruption; wickedness. 堕落，腐化，道德败坏 a tale of wickedness and depravity 难以置信的邪恶与腐败行为的故事。 Example sentencesExamples His work of this time conveyed disgust at the horrors of war and the depravities of a decadent society with unerring psychological insight and devastating emotional effect. If people wish to wallow in a cesspool of moral depravity, then they can visit a theatre and ogle the kind of actors that perform such plays. Set in a surrealist netherworld where eccentricities meet anarchy, the play plummets the audience into a landscape of Dali's well known paintings and into the depths and depravities of the artist's own subconscious. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible. No one, regardless of their moral depravity, should be denied medical care, but neither should moral depravity be condoned and tolerated. However, he rapidly descended into delightfully funny self-deprecating rants, characterised by frequent bouts of moral depravity. To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity. The level of judgment is tied to the level of depravity that occurred. Urban poverty was itself a serious problem, but many activists were concerned more specifically with the plight of children who were exposed to such an environment of material deprivation and moral depravity. One can avoid pornography on the market, but everyone pays for the depravities of the political class. These are well known and their depravities thoroughly discussed. He insinuates himself into party after party, observing a parade of gauche behavior, depravity, and selfishness. He incessantly denounced the moral depravity of leading politicians. Yet, his department wants to make a statement about what he must see as moral depravity. Of course, the indiscipline and depravity was very evident too. In the vehemence of their indignation, the general public somewhat forget that poverty and affluence can be equally conducive to moral depravity. Even the program book's supplementary material avoids any mention of the depravities endured there. How does one begin to comprehend, let alone treat with, this kind of moral depravity? The neighborhood's ‘infamy was so well known, that out-of-town visitors went there to see its depravities.’ Callous hunters are now presented as the personification of moral depravity. Synonyms corruption, corruptness, vice, perversion, pervertedness, deviance, degeneracy, degradation, immorality, shamelessness, debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, turpitude, loucheness, profligacy, licentiousness, lewdness, lasciviousness, salaciousness, lechery, lecherousness, prurience, obscenity, indecency, libertinism, sordidness 1.1 A wicked or morally corrupt act. 堕落行为，邪恶行为 Example sentencesExamples It seems as if his party simply won't stop at any depravity. Kevin looked at the depravity by the doorway and nodded silently. He daringly threw his body over hers to stop the depravity. The author traces the child protection movement to a time when child abuse was seen as a depravity of the immigrant poor. Who knows where this morally outrageous depravity might lead? Synonyms corruption, corruptness, vice, perversion, pervertedness, deviance, degeneracy, degradation, immorality, shamelessness, debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, turpitude, loucheness, profligacy, licentiousness, lewdness, lasciviousness, salaciousness, lechery, lecherousness, prurience, obscenity, indecency, libertinism, sordidness 1.2Christian Theology The innate corruption of human nature, due to original sin. 〔基督教神学〕（人性中源于原罪的）固有堕落本性 Example sentencesExamples The author, opposing any doctrine of natural depravity, argued that all children are born ‘innocent,’ that is, equally capable of vice or virtue. The doctrines of original sin or inherent human depravity would be examples of theism in its more extreme forms. We are all sinners who have been deeply wounded by the stain of our depravity, and we are nowhere more vulnerable and given to temptation than in the sexual dimensions of our being. His highlighting of the paradoxes arising from human free will, creativity and depravity made me keen to read on. Therefore a God-given moral absolute is necessarily applied and essential to the well being of the human species, given the depravity of human nature as it presently stands. Synonyms sin, sinfulness, ungodliness, unrighteousness, profanity, impiety, impurity Origin Mid 17th century: alteration (influenced by deprave) of obsolete pravity, from Latin pravitas, from pravus ‘crooked, perverse’.
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