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say it: deh-pruh-VAY-shuhn
depravation is a noun meaning "moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles". It is pronounced /ˌdɛpɹəˈveɪʃən/ — deh-pruh-VAY-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
“the luxury and corruption among the upper classes”
“moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration”
“its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity”
“Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for depravation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.