Word Meanings - DEPRAVITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The stae of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism. Syn.

Additional info about word: DEPRAVITY

The stae of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism. Syn. -- Corruption; vitiation; wickedness; vice; contamination; degeneracy. -- Depravity, Depravation, Corruption. Depravilty is a vitiated state of mind or feeling; as, the depravity of the human heart; depravity of public morals. Depravation points to the act or process of making depraved, and hence to the end thus reached; as, a gradual depravation of principle; a depravation of manners, of the heart, etc. Corruption is the only one of these words which applies to physical substances, and in reference to these denotes the process by which their component parts are dissolved. Hence, when figuratively used, it denotes an utter vitiation of principle or feeling. Depravity applies only to the mind and heart: we can speak of a depraved taste, or a corrupt taste; in the first we introduce the notion that there has been the influence of bad training to pervert; in the second, that there is a want of true principle to pervert; in the second, that there is a want of true principles to decide. The other two words have a wider use: we can speak of the depravation or the corruption of taste and public sentiment. Depravity is more or less open; corruption is more or less disguised in its operations. What is depraved requires to be reformed; what is corrupt requires to be purified.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEPRAVITY)

• Profligacy
• Shamelessness
• dissoluteness
• depravity
• reprobation
• Turpitude
• Baseness
• vileness
• badness
• wickedness
• disgracefulness

Related words: (words related to DEPRAVITY)

• BASENESS
  The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.
• REPROBATIONER
  One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation,2. South.
• DEPRAVITY
  The stae of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism. Syn.
• REPROBATION
  The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment. (more info) 1. The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure. The profligate pretenses upon
• DISSOLUTENESS
  State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.
• WICKEDNESS
  1. The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness. God saw that the wickedness of man was great. Gen. vi. 5. Their inward part is very
• PROFLIGACY
  The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
• TURPITUDE
  Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. Shak.
• BADNESS
  The state of being bad.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.