## Examples
- With characteristic perversity, she chose the one option everyone had advised against.
- His perversity made him impossible to manage in the classroom.

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: perversité
- Root: perversitās

## Etymology
From perverse + -ity, from Middle French perversité, from Latin perversitās.

## AI Etymology
Perversity is from perverse + -ity, from Middle French perversité, from Latin perversitās. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. Important recorded forms include perversité (Middle French) and perversitās (Latin). Current senses include a deliberate tendency to behave in an unreasonable or contrary way and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.

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- Describing People
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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