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Meaning of "pravity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRAVITY

pravity  [ˈprævɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRAVITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pravity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PRAVITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pravity in the English dictionary

The first definition of pravity in the dictionary is depravity, moral degeneracy, perversion. Other definition of pravity is corruption, poor quality, unwholesomeness. Pravity is also twisted quality, deformity.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRAVITY


activity
ækˈtɪvɪtɪ
antigravity
ˌæntɪˈɡrævɪtɪ
biconcavity
ˌbaɪkɒnˈkævɪtɪ
cavity
ˈkævɪtɪ
concavity
kɒnˈkævɪtɪ
conductivity
ˌkɒndʌkˈtɪvɪtɪ
connectivity
ˌkɒnɛkˈtɪvɪtɪ
creativity
ˌkriːeɪˈtɪvɪtɪ
depravity
dɪˈprævɪtɪ
gravity
ˈɡrævɪtɪ
inactivity
ˌɪnækˈtɪvɪtɪ
interactivity
ˌɪntərækˈtɪvɪtɪ
longevity
lɒnˈdʒɛvɪtɪ
microgravity
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌɡrævɪtɪ
nativity
nəˈtɪvɪtɪ
productivity
ˌprɒdʌkˈtɪvɪtɪ
reactivity
ˌriːækˈtɪvɪtɪ
sensitivity
ˌsɛnsɪˈtɪvɪtɪ
subcavity
ˈsʌbˌkævɪtɪ
supergravity
ˌsuːpəˈɡrævɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRAVITY

pratique
Prato
Prato in Toscana
pratt
prattle
prattlebox
prattlement
prattler
prattlingly
prau
prawle
prawn
prawn cocktail
prawn cracker
prawn-sandwich
prawn-sandwich brigade
prawner
praxeological
praxeology
praxes

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRAVITY

acceleration due to gravity
acceleration of gravity
air cavity
body cavity
captivity
centre of gravity
negativity
objectivity
physical activity
pulp cavity
quantum gravity
relativity
resonant cavity
segmentation cavity
selectivity
special theory of relativity
specific gravity
suavity
total depravity
zero gravity

Synonyms and antonyms of pravity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pravity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRAVITY

Find out the translation of pravity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pravity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pravity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

pravity
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

depravación
570 millions of speakers

English

pravity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pravity
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pravity
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

pravity
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

depravação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুর্বৃত্তাচরণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dépravation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keinginan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pravity
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pravity
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pravity
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pravity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pravity
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pravity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्राविटी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pravity
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pravity
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pravity
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

pravity
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pravity
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pravity
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verdorwenheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pravity
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pravity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pravity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRAVITY»

The term «pravity» is used very little and occupies the 175.031 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRAVITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pravity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pravity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pravity

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRAVITY»

Discover the use of pravity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pravity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
Open Open I I I I I I I I I Open I I I Open 1NA Ind. 211 Pravity li IntPral 21 Pravity 111 Integral 211 Pravity 11 Integral 211 Gravity 1NA Ind. 211 Pressure li Integral 311 Pravity 11 Integral 211 Gravity li Integral 2ii Pravity li Integral 211 Gravity 111  ...
Office of the Federal Register (U.S.), 1981
2
The British Quarterly Review
Indeed, if wo mistake not, the doctrine is discarded in the following passage: — ' That there is pravity or depravity in man, a downward tendency in man, and that this pravity or depravity is felt through his whole nature — this the Gospel does ...
Henry Allon, 1853
3
The British Quarterly Review
Indeed, if wc mistake not, the doctrine is discarded in the following passage : — ' That there is pravity or depravity in man, a downward tendency in man, and that this pravity or depravity is felt through his whole nature — this the Gospel does ...
‎1853
4
The Nullity of the Government of Queen Victoria in Ireland ...
But because it is too grievous not to do for the extermination of the aforesaid pravity, whatsoever its contagious enormity requires to be done. It is also grievous and most worthy of condemnation, maliciously to impute this same pravity to the ...
Robert J. Mac Ghee, 1841
5
Spiritual philosophy: founded on the teaching of the late ...
We want the assurance in and by the Idea, and not by an empirical fact, though the cause of the fact may be demonstrable, that in the fall of our first parents there existed the a priori condition of the universal prevalence of evil and of the pravity  ...
Joseph Henry Green, Sir John Simon, 1865
6
Theological Essays
That there is a pravity or depravity in every man, and that this pravity or depravity is felt through his whole nature, the Gospel does not assert as a principle of Theology, but concedes as an undoubted and ascertained fact of experience, which ...
Frederick Denison Maurice, 1881
7
The History of the Inquisition
Pravity of Intention. which he is convicted, or the whole Time of his Offence, or all his Accomplices, if the Things are so fresh, as that he can't be supposed to have forgotten them. Amongst these fort of Negatives are also reckoned by some, ...
Philippus van Limborch, 1731
8
The Bulwark, Or, Reformation Journal: In Defence of the True ...
It is an order to bishops, either by themselves or their archdeacons, to go through their dioceses every year, and carefully and sedulously to search and trace out any one infected with heretical pravity who might He concealed in it. It is also ...
‎1868
9
Sermons on various subjects
Again, all pravity and iniquity, and confe- quently all fin is in its own nature directly oppofed to the nature of God, nay, contradictory to it ; for to fay that God mould not be right and good, is to fay that he fhould not be. All this we grant they will fay, ...
Peter Browne (bp. of Cork and Ross.), 1749
10
The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall, ...
__r'-* ——'~— m.r”“v"_' ' ,~~— ' _/ V 1:': "' And for the most part complicated with heretical pravity ; [and viola_ tion of order. ] Four ways to become heretical. symptoms as the chameleon colours: as it was said of the schism of the Donatists , that ...
John Bramhall, 1842

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRAVITY»

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Norman "Pravity" Longshaw hasn't hugged his mother since he was 15 -- in almost a decade. His mom, Charlotte Marlene Longshaw, went to ... «Salt Lake Tribune, Aug 09»

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