DEPRAVATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depravation mean? 

• DEPRAVATION (noun)
  The noun DEPRAVATION has 1 sense:

1. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

  Familiarity information: DEPRAVATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPRAVATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

corruption; degeneracy; depravation; depravity; putrefaction

Context example:

Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction

Hypernyms ("depravation" is a kind of...):

immorality (the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct)

Derivation:

deprave (corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality)