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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles;
- Example: "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"
- Example: "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"
- Example: "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"
- Example: "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
[syn: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Depravation \Dep`ra*va"tion\ (d[e^]p`r[.a]*v[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. depravitio, from depravare: cf. F. d['e]pravation. See Deprave.] 1. Detraction; depreciation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting. [1913 Webster] 3. The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity. [1913 Webster] The depravation of his moral character destroyed his judgment. --Sir G. C. Lewis. [1913 Webster] 4. (Med.) Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion. Syn: Depravity; corruption. See Depravity. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

depravation n 1: 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" [syn: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "depravation": abandon, abandonment, abjection, comedown, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, demotion, depravedness, depravity, depreciation, derogation, descent, deterioration, devolution, dissoluteness, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, involution, lapse, loss of tone, moral pollution, moral turpitude, profligacy, regression, reprobacy, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, rottenness, slippage, slump, turpitude, wane