perversity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

perversity (countable and uncountable, plural perversities)

1. The quality of being perverse.
2. Something which is perverse.
   • 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 112:

     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.

Derived terms

• diversity is perversity
• polymorphous perversity

 

Translations

the quality of being perverse

• Catalan: perversitat f
• Finnish: perverssiys (fi), kieroutuneisuus
• Galician: perversidade (gl) f
• German: Perversität (de) f
• Italian: perversità (it) f
• Polish: perwersja (pl) f
• Portuguese: perversidade (pt) f
• Romanian: perversitate (ro) f
• Russian: извращённость f (izvraščónnostʹ)
• Spanish: perversidad (es) f

something which is perverse

• Finnish: perverssiys (fi)
• Galician: perversidade (gl) f
• German: Perversität (de) f
• Polish: perwersja (pl) f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: perversitate (ro) f
• Russian: извраще́ние (ru) n (izvraščénije)