1. Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
   - contrariness, perverseness 
2. Deliberately deviating from what is good
   "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"
   - perverseness

Derived forms: perversities

See also: perverse

Type of: evil, evilness, fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness [Brit, Cdn], willfulness [N. Amer]

Encyclopedia: Perversity

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