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    PERVERSENESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Deliberately deviating from what is goodplay

    Example:

    there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism

    Synonyms:

    perverseness; perversity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("perverseness" is a kind of...):

    evil; evilness (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice)

    Derivation:

    perverse (deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or disciplineplay

    Synonyms:

    contrariness; perverseness; perversity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("perverseness" is a kind of...):

    fractiousness; unruliness; wilfulness; willfulness (the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perverseness"):

    cussedness; orneriness (meanspirited disagreeable contrariness)

    Derivation:

    perverse (resistant to guidance or discipline)

    perverse (marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict)

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