perversion

n

1. deviation, aberration, anomaly, abnormality, irregularity, variability, misguidance, misdirection, misadvisement; misinformation, misex-planation, misexplication; misinstruction, miseduca-tion, miscorrection; delusion, beguilement, deceit, deception, trickery.

2. misuse, misapplication, prostitution, exploitation, misemployment, misappropriation, mismanagement, maladministration, (all deliberately) misconstruction, misinterpretation, mistranslation; misquotation, miscoloration, falsification, misrepresentation, subreption, eisegesis; distortion, Fig. butchery, Fig. mutilation; bias, coloration; exaggeration; evasion; embroidery, embellishment, adornment, decoration, garnish, titivation.

3. strangeness, oddness, incongruousness, peculiarity, curiousness, queerness; unconventionality, uncom-monness, uncommonality, unusualness, exception, singularity, singularness, individuality, individualness; waywardness, deviousness, unacceptableness; corruption, wantonness, decadence, depravity, wickedness; licentiousness, lewdness, erotomania; (all with reference to sexual relations) fiendishness, psychopathy, pathology, criminality; monstrousness, unnaturalness, freakishness, Inf. kinkiness.

4. sadism, masochism, sadomasochism, Sl. s-m, algolagnia, algolagny; fetishism, voyeurism, scotophilia, narcissism, exhibitionism; sodomy, buggery; pederasty, pedophilia, child-molesting; coprophilia; necrophilia; zoophilia; incest, incestuousness.

5. deterioration, degeneration, declination, declen-sion, downfall, labefaction, detriment; degradation, depredation, vitiation, debasement, abasement, impairment, reduction, lowering; pollution, contamination, adulteration, infection; defilement, desecration, debauchery, profanity; violation, abuse, injury, harm, ruination.