Home › Words › P › pervinesspervinessperviness means sexual perversion.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, perviness ranks #16,734 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom pervy + -ness.nounSexual perversion.e.g.“Then it dawned on me: no matter how hard I tried, I could not find even the faintest hint of perviness.” — 2007 October 25, Armand Limnander, “Tangled in Ivy, With a Twist”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.pervy 81% match — Behaving or looking like a sexual pervert. vs perviness →perversity 74% match — The quality of being perverse. vs perviness →perversive 73% match — Tending to pervert. vs perviness →perverseness 72% match — The quality of being perverse; doggedness, obstinacy. vs perviness →pervo 70% match — pervert vs perviness →pornological 68% match — Describing the sex act and sexual perversions. vs perviness →pervertibility 68% match — The quality of being pervertible. vs perviness →perverted 68% match — Deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct. vs perviness →