perversity

noun
/pə(ɹ)ˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/

Etymology

From perverse + -ity, from Middle French perversité, from Latin perversitās.

  1. derived from perversitās
  2. derived from perversité

Definitions

  1. The quality of being perverse.

  2. Something which is perverse.

    • More generally, for the ULD property to hold, the substitution effects (which are always well behaved) must be large enough to overcome possible “perversities” coming from the wealth effects.
    • “Of all this world's perversities, there is only one I cannot abide: the kink-shame. I'm off!” “You can't walk out! I'm walking out!”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for perversity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA