perversity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From perverse + -ity, from Middle French perversité, from Latin perversitās.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]perversity (countable and uncountable, plural perversities)
- The quality of being perverse.
- Something which is perverse.
- 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 112:
- More generally, for the ULD property to hold, the substitution effects (which are always well behaved) must be large enough to overcome possible “perversities” coming from the wealth effects.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the quality of being perverse
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something which is perverse
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