English noun: depravation | |||
1. | depravation (attribute) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Synonyms | corruption, degeneracy, depravity, putrefaction | ||
Broader (hypernym) | immorality | ||