English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From debauch + -ery, 1640s.
Pronunciation[edit]
debauchery (countable and uncountable, plural debaucheries)
- Indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition.
- (archaic) Seduction from duty.
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Translations[edit]
debauchery
- Arabic: فُجُور m (fujūr), إِغْوَاء m (ʾiḡwāʾ), فُسُوق m (fusūq)
- Armenian: անառակություն (hy) (anaṙakutʿyun)
- 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 (zh), 放荡 (zh) (fàngdàng)
- Czech: zhýralost f, hýření n
- Dutch: losbandigheid (nl), zedeloosheid (nl)
- Esperanto: diboĉo
- Farefare: yalsɩ
- Finnish: irstailu (fi)
- French: débauche (fr) f, dévergondage (fr) f
- German: Ausschweifung (de) f, Schwelgerei f, Verkommenheit f, Sittenlosigkeit f, Genusssucht (de) f, Genußsucht (de) f, Zügellosigkeit (de) f
- Greek: ακολασία (el) f (akolasía), κραιπάλη (el) f (kraipáli)
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- Hebrew: הוֹלֵלוּת f (holelút)
- Italian: depravazione (it) f, perversione (it) f, viziosità f, immoralità (it) f, licenziosità (it) f, dissolutezza f
- Japanese: 淫乱 (いんらん, inran), 漁色 (ぎょしょく, gyoshoku), 放蕩 (ja) (ほうとう, hōtō), 淫逸 (いんいつ, in'itsu), 酒色 (しゅしょく, shushoku)
- Macedonian: разврат m (razvrat)
- Norwegian: skjørlevnet
- Persian: عیاشی (fa) ('ayyâši)
- Polish: rozpusta (pl) f
- Portuguese: libertinagem (pt) f, baixaria (pt) f, deboche (pt) m
- Romanian: desfrâu (ro) n, desfrânare (ro) f, depravare (ro) f
- Russian: развра́т (ru) m (razvrát), дебо́ш (ru) m (debóš)
- Serbo-Croatian: razvrat (sh) m
- Spanish: libertinaje (es) m, puterío m
- Swedish: sedeslöshet (sv)
- Turkish: çapkınlık (tr)
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)
- WordNet 3.0 (Princeton University); “debauchery” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
