Noun: perversity pu(r)'vur-su-tee
- Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
"His perversity in always doing the opposite of what was expected amused some and annoyed others";
- contrariness, perverseness
- Deliberately deviating from what is good
"there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism";
- perverseness
Derived forms: perversities
Type of: evil, evilness, fractiousness, ill, unruliness, wilfulness [Brit, Cdn], willfulness [N. Amer]
Encyclopedia: Perversity