perversity
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
Types & categories
- unruliness hypernym
- cussedness hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
deliberately deviating from what is good
there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism
Types & categories
- evilness hypernym
Related & opposite
- reprobate derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | wayward |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | perverse |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | unruliness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | cussedness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | reprobate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | evilness |