Meaning & Definition of Depravity in English

1. Moral perversion

• Impairment of virtue and moral principles

• "The luxury and corruption among the upper classes"

• "Moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"

• "Its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"

• "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"

2. A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice

• "The various turpitudes of modern society"