DEBAUCHERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does debauchery mean? 

• DEBAUCHERY (noun)
  The noun DEBAUCHERY has 1 sense:

1. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

  Familiarity information: DEBAUCHERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEBAUCHERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bacchanal; bacchanalia; debauch; debauchery; drunken revelry; orgy; riot; saturnalia

Hypernyms ("debauchery" is a kind of...):

revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)

Derivation:

debauch (corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality)

 Context examples 

I tried dissipation—never debauchery: that I hated, and hate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)