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発音

• enPR: pər-vûr′zhən
• (Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA: /pəˈvɜː.ʒən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /pəɹˈvɜɹ.ʒən/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /pəˈvøː.ʒən/
• (Scotland) IPA: /pəɾˈvɛɾ.ʒən/, /pʌɾˈvɛɾ.ʒʌn/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
• ハイフネーション: per‧ver‧sion

名詞

perversion (countable and uncountable, plural perversions)

1. The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.

   Synonyms: abasement, corruption, debauchment; see also Thesaurus:corruption

2. The state of being perverted; depravity; vice.

   Synonyms: degeneracy, sinfulness, turpitude, warp; see also Thesaurus:iniquity

3. Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 61–62:

     After all, the great error in human judgment is not so much wilful perversion, as that we judge according to situation, and always make that situation our own ; while the chances are, that we really have not one thought, feeling, or habit, in common with those on whom we yet think ourselves qualified to decide.

4. A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality.

   Antonym: normophilia

5. (geometry) Ellipsis of tendril perversion.

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• “perversion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• overripens

名詞

perversion (plural perversions)

1. perversion

派生した語

• > English: perversion (inherited)

Further reading

• “perversiọ̄n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2026: “Corruption of justice or the soul.”.