Depravity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Moral corruption or degradation.
  • n. A depraved act or condition.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
  • n. A particular depraved act or trait.
  • n. Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being depraved or corrupt; corruption; degeneracy: as, depravity of manners or morals.
  • n. Specifically
  • n. In theology, the hereditary tendency of mankind, derived from Adam through his descendants, to commit sin; original sin.
  • n. Profligacy, baseness, degeneracy, vice, demoralization.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
  • n. a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
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