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depravity

UK/dəˈpɹævɪti/US/dəˈpɹævɪti/
nounC2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,660 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: depravities

Depravity is deep moral corruption. Utter depravity, a scene of depravity, human depravity.

It is the strongest word of its kind and is reserved for cruelty rather than mere wrongdoing. In theology, total depravity is a doctrine about the state of human nature rather than a description of any person.

Definitions of depravity

  1. 1noundepravityDeep moral corruption.C2

    “The trial revealed the full depravity of the killer's crimes.”

depravity is a corruption.

Remember it

dePRAVity → GRAVITY, but for what a person is

It falls the way gravity takes everything down, and it keeps falling.

hooks ontogravity

Practise this word

depravity in the wild

  • Limited depravity is the doctrine that denies original sin has entirely tainted human free will.

    Limited depravity

  • Limited depravity is rejected by Calvinists and most Arminians including Jacobus Arminius himself, his followers, the Remonstrants, John Wesley and most Methodists.

    Limited depravity

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.