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debauchery - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | debauchery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immoral self-indulgence |
| Synonyms: | bender*, binge, blowout*, bust, carousal, depravity, dissipation, drunk*, excess, fornication, incontinence, indulgence, intemperance, intimacy, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, license, lust, orgy, overindulgence, revel, revelry, seduction, tear*, burning candle at both ends, dissoluteness, fast living, gluttony, la dolce vita, licentiousness, life in fast lane, sensuality, sybaritism |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, giving, unselfishness, mercifulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depravity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption, immorality |
| Synonyms: | baseness, contamination, debasement, debauchery, degeneracy, degradation, evil, iniquity, lewdness, perversion, vice, wickedness, abandonment, criminality, depravation, licentiousness, profligacy, sensuality, sinfulness, viciousness, vitiation |
| Antonyms: | good, honor, justice, morality, nobility, purity, uprightness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, curse, debauchery, depravity, diablerie, harm, hatred, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, lewdness, malevolence, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, ruin, sin, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing, criminality, devilry, diabolism, heinousness, knavery, licentiousness, looseness, malignity, perversity, sinfulness, viciousness, vileness |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | lechery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lewdness |
| Synonyms: | debauchery, lasciviousness, lust, carnality, libertinism, licentiousness, lustfulness, raunchiness, salaciousness, wantonness |
| Main Entry: | perversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual abnormality |
| Synonyms: | aberration, anomaly, corruption, debauchery, fetish, kink*, deviance, immorality, kinkiness, sexual deviation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | revelry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | merrymaking |
| Synonyms: | carousal, carouse, celebration, debauch, debauchery, entertainment, festival, festivity, fun, gaiety, high jinks, jollity, party, saturnalia, spree, jollification, reveling, revelment, whoop-de-do, whoopla |
| Antonyms: | mourning, sadness, sobriety |
| Main Entry: | turpitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depravity |
| Synonyms: | baseness, corruption, debasement, debauchery, degradation, evil, lewdness, perversion, vice, wickedness, criminality, immorality, improbity, licentiousness, sinfulness, viciousness, vileness |
| Main Entry: | hedonism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensualism |
| Synonyms: | debauchery, enjoyment, gratification, indulgence, pleasure, epicureanism |
| Main Entry: | lasciviousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lechery |
| Synonyms: | debauchery, lewdness, lust, lustfulness, prurience, wantonness |
| Main Entry: | lewdness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency |
| Synonyms: | coarseness, concupiscence, debauchery, depravity, eroticism, evil, evilness, impurity, incontinence, lasciviousness, lechery, obscenity, pornography, smut, villainy, vulgarity, wickedness, boorishness, brutishness, carnality, corruptness, dirtiness, dissoluteness, erotism, fleshliness, grossness, incontinency, lecherousness, libidinousness, licentiousness, lubricity, lustfulness, pederasty, prurience, pruriency, raunchiness, ribaldry, ruttishness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, scurrility, smuttiness, unchastity, vileness, voluptuousness, wantonness |
| Antonyms: | decency, modesty, continency |
| Main Entry: | vice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad habit; sin |
| Synonyms: | corruption, debasement, debauchery, decay, degeneracy, depravity, evil, ill, indecency, iniquity, lechery, lewdness, lust, offense, perversion, rot, squalor, transgression, trespass, venality, wickedness, wrong, carnality, evildoing, immorality, libidinousness, licentiousness, looseness, lubricity, maleficence, malignance, profligacy, sensuality |
| Notes: | a vice is a harmful or nasty habit or action; a vise is a heavy clamp with jaws opened and shut by a lever or screw |
| Antonyms: | propriety, virtue, good point |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wantonness |
| Synonyms: | debauchery, dissolution, drunkenness, evil, excess, extravagance, indulgence, intemperance, lavishness, waste, abandonment, dissoluteness, free-living, high-living, life in the fast lane, prodigality, profligacy, self-gratification, squandering, to hell in handbasket |
| Antonyms: | unselfishness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overindulgence in personal desires |
| Synonyms: | debauchery, dissipation, exorbitance, extravagance, extreme, extremity, indulgence, intemperance, saturnalia, self-indulgence, dissoluteness, immoderacy, immoderation, inordinateness, overdoing, prodigality, unrestraint |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, economy, frugality, moderation, privation |
| Main Entry: | license |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandon, indulgence |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, arrogance, audacity, boldness, complacency, debauchery, disorder, effrontery, excess, forwardness, impropriety, lawlessness, laxity, relaxation, self-indulgence, temerity, animalism, gluttony, immoderation, irresponsibility, looseness, presumptuousness, prodigality, profligacy, refractoriness, relaxedness, sauciness, sensuality, slackness, unrestraint, unruliness, wantonness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | reason |
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