depravity

noun
🔊/dɪˈprævəti/
🔊/dɪˈprævəti/
[uncountable, countable] (formal)
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  1. the state of being morally bad; morally bad acts 堕落;腐化synonym wickedness
    • a life of depravity腐化的生活
    • descriptions of her alleged depravities她涉嫌堕落的描述
    Topics Personal qualitiesc2
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: alteration (influenced by deprave) of obsolete pravity, from Latin pravitas, from pravus ‘crooked, perverse’.