Perversity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Perversity \Per*ver"si*ty\, n. [L. perversitas: cf. F.
     perversit['e].]
     The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  perversity
       n 1: deliberate unruliness [syn: {contrariness}, {perverseness}]
       2: deliberately deviating from what is good

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "perversity":
     antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, bearishness, bitchiness,
     cantankerousness, churlishness, clashing, collision, conflict,
     confrontation, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication,
     contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contrast,
     counterposition, crabbedness, crankiness, cross-purposes,
     crossness, crustiness, cussedness, difficultness, disagreeability,
     disagreement, discrepancy, dourness, excitability, fractiousness,
     frowardness, hostility, huffiness, huffishness, inconsistency,
     inimicalness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, oppositeness,
     opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, orneriness,
     perverseness, perversite, polarity, repugnance, showdown,
     snappishness, stuffiness, sulkiness, sullenness, testiness,
     ugliness, waspishness, waywardness, wrongheadedness