perversity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From perverse + -ity, from Middle French perversité, from Latin perversitās.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]perversity (countable and uncountable, plural perversities)
- The quality of being perverse.
- 2017 October 18, Seth Kubersky, “A weekend full of puppetry-themed entertainment is just the ticket, unless you’re pupaphobic”, in Orlando Weekly[1]:
- Hey kids, the word of the week is "pupaphobia"! Others may enjoy being frightened by chainsaw-wielding maniacs and cannibal clowns, but my Halloween is never complete without a murderous Muppet or two. Thankfully, a pair of events last Friday the 13th provided a perfect double feature of puppet perversity.
- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]the quality of being perverse
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something which is perverse
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