What is the meaning of depravity?

noun

  • Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles.
    • usage: "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"
  • A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice.
    • usage: "the various turpitudes of modern society"
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