What is the meaning of depravation?

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"
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