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DEBAUCHERY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DEBAUCHERY?

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Debauchery as a Noun
Definitions of "Debauchery" as a noun
Synonyms of "Debauchery" as a noun (48 Words)
Associations of "Debauchery" (30 Words)

The synonyms of “Debauchery” are: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, orgy, riot, saturnalia, dissipation, dissoluteness, degeneracy, corruption, vice, turpitude, depravity, rakishness, immodesty, indecency, perversion, shamelessness, iniquity, wickedness, sinfulness, sinning, impropriety, lack of morals, lack of principles, immorality, impurity, lasciviousness, salaciousness, lechery, lecherousness, lewdness, bawdiness, lust, lustfulness, licentiousness, promiscuity, wantonness, abandonment, abandon, profligacy, decadence, immoderateness, intemperance, lack of restraint, indulgence, self-indulgence, hedonism

Debauchery as a Noun

Definitions of "Debauchery" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “debauchery” as a noun can have the following definitions:

A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
Excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs.

Synonyms of "Debauchery" as a noun (48 Words)

abandon	Complete lack of inhibition or restraint. She danced with abandon.
abandonment	The action or fact of abandoning or being abandoned. His abandonment* of his wife and children left them penniless.*
bacchanal	A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus. The debauched and alcoholic president was said to be organizing unceasing bacchanals.
bacchanalia	An orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus.
bawdiness	The trait of behaving in an obscene manner.
corruption	In a state of progressive putrefaction. A record of a word s corruption.
debauch	A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity. Patrick looked utterly untouched by the previous night s debauch.
decadence	Moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury. He denounced Western decadence.
degeneracy	The state or quality of being degenerate. Moral degeneracy* followed intellectual degeneration.*
depravity	The innate corruption of human nature, due to original sin. Its brothels its opium parlors its depravity.
dissipation	Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly. The dissipations in the switch and diode are small.
dissoluteness	Indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures.
hedonism	The ethical theory that pleasure (in the sense of the satisfaction of desires) is the highest good and proper aim of human life.
immoderateness	The quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation.
immodesty	Lack of humility or decency. He had the immodesty* to say that his way is the only way.*
immorality	The state or quality of being immoral; wickedness. He believed his father had been punished by God for his immorality.
impropriety	The condition of being improper. She was scandalized at the impropriety* of the question.*
impurity	The condition of being impure. A struggle to rid the soul of sin and impurity.
indecency	The quality of being indecent. Seven offences of rape and indecency.
indulgence	In the Roman Catholic Church a grant by the Pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages. The notice given granted a final indulgence* of four weeks.*
iniquity	An unjust act. A den of iniquity.
intemperance	Lack of moderation or restraint. The intemperance* of their language.*
lack of morals	The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
lack of principles	The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
lack of restraint	The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
lasciviousness	Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.
lecherousness	A strong sexual desire.
lechery	Excessive or offensive sexual desire; lustfulness. The vice of lechery.
lewdness	The trait of behaving in an obscene manner.
licentiousness	Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure.
lustfulness	A strong sexual desire.
profligacy	Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure. The government returned to fiscal profligacy.
promiscuity	The fact or state of being promiscuous. Some fear this will lead to greater sexual promiscuity* amongst teens.*
rakishness	The quality of a rake.
riot	An uproar. A riot* of emotions raged through Fabia.*
salaciousness	The trait of behaving in an obscene manner.
saturnalia	A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
self-indulgence	An inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires.
shamelessness	Behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame.
sinfulness	Estrangement from god.
sinning	Ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.
turpitude	A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice. The various turpitudes of modern society.
vice	A bad or neurotic habit of stabled horses, typically arising as a result of boredom. Cigars happen to be my father s vice.
wantonness	The quality of being lewd and lascivious.
wickedness	Absence of moral or spiritual values. The wickedness* of the regime.*

Associations of "Debauchery" (30 Words)

alcohol	Drink containing alcohol. Polyvinyl alcohol.
bacchanal	Used of riotously drunken merrymaking. The debauched and alcoholic president was said to be organizing unceasing bacchanals.
bacchanalian	Characterized by or given to drunken revelry. A night of bacchanalian* revelry.*
binge	Indulge in an activity, especially eating, drinking, or taking drugs, to excess. She binged on ice cream.
corrupt	Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality. Epicurus s teachings have since been much corrupted.
corruptive	Tending to corrupt or pervert.
debauch	A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity. He has debauched the morals of the people and endeavoured to corrupt parliament.
degraded	Reduced in quality; inferior. Deplorably dissipated and degraded.
depraved	Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good. He was a depraved* lecher.*
depravity	Moral corruption; wickedness. Its brothels its opium parlors its depravity.
festival	An organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place. Traditional Jewish festivals.
immoral	Deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong. Unseemly and immoral* behaviour.*
intoxicated	Drunk or under the influence of drugs. Officials are reporting an increase in the number of intoxicated* students requiring medical attention.*
lascivious	Feeling or revealing an overt sexual interest or desire. He gave her a lascivious* wink.*
lechery	Unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity. The vice of lechery.
libertine	Characterized by free indulgence in sensual pleasures. His more libertine* impulses.*
libidinous	Showing excessive sexual drive; lustful. Libidinous teenagers.
licentious	Lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained. Unlike many of the artists who frequented the Soho scene of the 1960s he did not lead a licentious* life.*
philanderer	A man who readily or frequently enters into casual sexual relationships with women; a womanizer. He was known as a philanderer.
plastered	Made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance. Black hair plastered* with pomade.*
profligacy	Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure. An era of extreme decadence and profligacy.
reprobate	Express strong disapproval of. His neighbours reprobated his method of proceeding.
riot	Take part in a riot disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot. Students were rioting everywhere in 1968.
spree	Take part in a spree. Crews were seldom going ashore and therefore seldom going on the spree.
tipple	Drink alcohol, especially habitually. Those who liked to tipple* and gamble.*
twist	Dance the twist. The taps needed a single twist* to turn them on.*
vicious	Serious or dangerous. Vicious kicks.