English
Etymology
From debauch + -ery, 1640s.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈbɔː.t͡ʃə.ɹi/
- (US) IPA(key): /dɪˈbɔ.t͡ʃə.ɹi/, /dɪˈbɑ.t͡ʃə.ɹi/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /dɪˈboː.t͡ʃə.ɹi/
Noun
debauchery (countable and uncountable, plural debaucheries)
- Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous/immoral activities; involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition.
The novel depicts the debauchery of the ruling class.
He sank into a life of debauchery.
life of debauchery
drunken debauchery
moral debauchery
- (archaic) Seduction from duty
Synonyms
Translations
debauchery
- Arabic: فُجُور (ar) m (fujūr), إِغْوَاء m (ʔiḡwāʔ), فُسُوق m (fusūq)
- Armenian: անառակություն (hy) (anaṙakutʻyun)
- Belarusian: распуста f (raspusta)
- Bulgarian: разврат (bg) m (razvrat)
- Catalan: disbauxa (ca) f, llibertinatge m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 淫逸 (zh) (yínyì), 邪淫 (zh) (xiéyín), 酒色 (zh) (jiǔsè), 放蕩 / 放荡 (zh) (fàngdàng)
- Czech: zhýralost f, hýření n, prostopášnost (cs) f, nezřízenost f
- Danish: udskejelse c, udsvævelse c
- Dutch: losbandigheid (nl), zedeloosheid (nl)
- Esperanto: diboĉo
- Farefare: yalsɩ
- Finnish: irstailu (fi)
- French: débauche (fr) f, dévergondage (fr) f, débaucherie (fr)
- German: Ausschweifung (de) f, Schwelgerei f, Verkommenheit (de) f, Sittenlosigkeit f, Genusssucht (de) f, Genußsucht (de) f, Zügellosigkeit (de) f
- Greek: ακολασία (el) f (akolasía), κραιπάλη (el) f (kraipáli)
- Hebrew: הוֹלֵלוּת f (holelút)
- Hungarian: kicsapongás (hu)
- Italian: depravazione (it) f, perversione (it) f, viziosità f, immoralità (it) f, licenziosità (it) f, dissolutezza (it) f
- Japanese: 淫乱 (ja) (いんらん, inran), 漁色 (ぎょしょく, gyoshoku), 放蕩 (ja) (ほうとう, hōtō), 淫逸 (ja) (いんいつ, in'itsu), 酒色 (ja) (しゅしょく, shushoku)
- Macedonian: разврат m (razvrat)
- Maori: tautau(w)hea
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skjørlevnet (no) n
- Persian: عیاشی (fa) ('ayyâši)
- Polish: rozpusta (pl) f
- Portuguese: libertinagem (pt) f, putaria (pt) f, safadeza f
- Romanian: desfrâu (ro) n, desfrânare (ro) f, depravare (ro) f
- Russian: развра́т (ru) m (razvrát), дебо́ш (ru) m (debóš)
- Serbo-Croatian: razvrat (sh) m
- Slovene: razuzdanost f
- Spanish: libertinaje (es) m, puterío m
- Swedish: sedeslöshet (sv)
- Turkish: çapkınlık (tr), ahlaksızlık (tr)
- Ukrainian: розпуста f (rozpusta)
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See also
References
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)
- WordNet 3.0 (Princeton University); “debauchery”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.