perversities
Stubborn wrongheaded behaviors
Perversities is the plural of perversity—instances of being contrary, stubborn, or willfully unreasonable.
The word suggests deliberate deviation from what's expected or sensible: the perversities of human nature, life's little perversities.
It can describe both character traits and circumstances that seem designed to frustrate: By some perversity of fate, the letter arrived too late.
Deviation from the norm
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- degeneracyMoral or physical decline
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
immorality · sinfulness · turpitude · iniquity · vice · debauchery · dissoluteness · licentiousness
Refusal to yield
- obstinacyUnyielding adherence to position
- willfulnessIntentional resistance to direction
- waywardnessStubborn resistance to guidance
- contrarinessHabitual disposition to oppose
intransigence · pigheadedness · mulishness · recalcitrance · defiance · orneriness · cantankerousness · wrongheadedness
Departure from the expected
- aberrationDeviation from the norm
- irregularityDeparture from standard
- odditySomething unusual or unexpected
- quirkPeculiar behavioral trait
eccentricity · idiosyncrasy · peculiarity · singularity · deviation · divergence · unconventionality · bizarreness
aberration
Deviation from the norm
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- degeneracyMoral or physical decline
corruption · immorality · sinfulness · turpitude · iniquity · vice · debauchery · dissoluteness · licentiousness · profligacy
stubbornness
Refusal to yield
- obstinacyUnyielding adherence to position
- willfulnessIntentional resistance to direction
- waywardnessStubborn resistance to guidance
contrariness · intransigence · pigheadedness · mulishness · recalcitrance · defiance · orneriness · cantankerousness · wrongheadedness · irrationality
anomaly
Departure from the expected
- aberrationDeviation from the norm
- irregularityDeparture from standard
- odditySomething unusual or unexpected
quirk · eccentricity · idiosyncrasy · peculiarity · singularity · deviation · divergence · unconventionality · bizarreness · outlandishness
perversitiesvirtues
Positive moral traits
righteousness · goodness · probity · integrity · uprightness
perversitiescompliance
Adhering to requirements
conformity · obedience · orthodoxies · conventionalities · proprieties
perversitiesnormalities
States of being standard
naturalness · straightforwardness · soundness · healthiness · wholesomeness
perverse, perversion, perversity, perversely, perverseness, perversions, perved