English-Thai Dictionary

depravity

N การ ทุจริต  ภาวะ ที่ เสื่อมทราม ลง  corruption degeneracy kan-tud-ja-rid

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEPRAVITY

n. 1. Corruption; a vitiated state; as the depravity of manners and morals.
2. A vitiated state of the heart; wickedness; corruption of moral principles; destitution of holiness or good principles.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DEPRAVITY

De *prav "i *ty, n. Etym: [From Deprave: cf. L. pravitas crookedness, perverseness. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

depravity

de prav i ty |diˈpravitē dəˈprævədi | ▶noun ( pl. depravities ) moral corruption; wickedness: a tale of wickedness and depravity. • a wicked or morally corrupt act. • Christian Theology the innate corruption of human nature, due to original sin. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: alteration (influenced by deprave ) of obsolete pravity, from Latin pravitas, from pravus ‘crooked, perverse. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

depravity

depravity |dɪˈpravɪti | ▶noun ( pl. depravities ) [ mass noun ] moral corruption; wickedness: a tale of depravity hard to credit | [ count noun ] : I wondered what depravities had occurred in that place. • Christian Theology the innate corruption of human nature, due to original sin. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: alteration (influenced by deprave ) of obsolete pravity, from Latin pravitas, from pravus ‘crooked, perverse ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

depravity

depravity noun the depravity of white slavers: corruption, vice, perversion, deviance, degeneracy, immorality, debauchery, dissipation, profligacy, licentiousness, lechery, prurience, obscenity, indecency; wickedness, sin, iniquity; formal turpitude.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

depravity

depravity noun she viewed her ex-husband as a monster of depravity: corruption, corruptness, vice, perversion, pervertedness, deviance, degeneracy, degradation, immorality, shamelessness, debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, turpitude, loucheness, profligacy, licentiousness, lewdness, lasciviousness, salaciousness, lechery, lecherousness, prurience, obscenity, indecency, libertinism, sordidness; wickedness, sinfulness, vileness, baseness, iniquity, nefariousness, criminality, viciousness, brutality, brutishness; informal perviness; rare vitiation. ANTONYMS morality.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

depravity

de prav i ty /dɪprǽvəti /名詞 複 -ties 1 U 腐敗 [堕落 ]した状態 ; 邪悪 .2 C 不善, 悪行 .