perversionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/pəˈvɜː.ʒən/us/pɚˈvɝː.ʒən/disapprovingsexual behaviour that is considered strange and unpleasant by most people:
The novels of the Marquis de Sade deal with sexual perversion.
the changing of something so that it is not what it was or should be:
His testimony was clearly a perversion of the truth.
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Change and changes
- a change is as good as a rest idiom
- adjustment
- alteration
- blip
- changeover
- drift
- ebb
- fluctuate
- gradation
- metamorphosis
- modulate
- paradigm shift
- punctuated equilibrium
- rearrangement
- shake-up
- speciation
- step change
- tide
- transfigure
- twist
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