perversion

Noun

perversion (countable and uncountable, plural perversions)

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

   Synonyms:

   abasement, corruption, debauchment, adulteration, debasement, defilement, depravation, depravement, impurification, pollution

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

   Synonyms:

   degeneracy, sinfulness, turpitude, warp, baseness, corruption, defilement, degradation, depravation, depravedness

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 thought, feeling, or habit, in common with those on whom we yet think ourselves...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 61–62
4. A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance; immorality.

   Antonyms:

   normophilia