different between immorality vs depravity

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???æl?ti/, /?m????æl?ti/
• Rhymes: -æl?ti

Noun

immorality (usually uncountable, plural immoralities)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
2. (countable) An immoral act or practice.
   • 1997, Emily Assami, Mary Kennedy, and Amatullah Bantley, The Qur'an (Saheeh International Translation), surah 7, verse 28

     And when they commit an immorality, they say, "We found our fathers doing it, and Allah has ordered us to do it."

Related terms

• amorality

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p?æv?ti/

Noun

depravity (countable and uncountable, plural depravities)

1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being depraved; moral debasement.
2. (countable) A particular depraved act or trait.
3. (uncountable, Christian theology) Inborn corruption, entailing the belief that every facet of human nature has been polluted, defiled, and contaminated by sin.

Synonyms

• wickedness

Related terms

• depravation
• depravedness

Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “depravity”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• depravity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “depravity” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "depravity" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
• "depravity" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

Anagrams

• varityped