perversion
noun [C or U] /pəˈvɜː.ʒən/
/pɚˈvɝː-/ disapprovingDefinition
› sexual behaviour that is considered strange and unpleasant by most people: The novels of the Marquis de Sade deal with sexual perversion.Sexual activity in generalPhysical and sexual assault and abduction › the changing of something so that it is not what it was or should be: His testimony was clearly a perversion of the truth.Change and changes
(Definition of perversion noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- a change is as good as a rest idiom
- adjustment noun (CHANGE)
- alteration noun
- blip noun
- changeover noun
- conversion noun (CHANGE)
- flux noun (CHANGE)
- movement noun (CHANGE OPINION)
- movement noun (PROGRESS)
- paradigm shift noun
- rearrangement noun
- regime change noun
- reversal noun
- reversion noun
- shift noun (CHANGE)
- transition noun
- turnabout noun
- turnaround noun (BIG CHANGE)
- variation noun (CHANGE)
- vicissitudes noun
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