perversion

Noun

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

   Synonyms: abasement corruption debauchment adulteration debasement defilement depravation depravement impurification perversion pollution profanation

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

   Synonyms: degeneracy sinfulness turpitude baseness corruption defilement degradation depravation depravedness depravity impurity iniquity lewdity malignity misdoing misguilt obliquity peccability perversion pollution pravity sin vitiation wickedness

3. Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
   • 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...
4. A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality.

   Antonyms: normophilia

5. Ellipsis of tendril perversion.