Akademik

perversity
noun
1. deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
Syn: ↑contrariness, ↑perverseness
Derivationally related forms: ↑perverse (for: ↑perverseness), ↑perverse, ↑contrary (for: ↑contrariness)
Hypernyms: ↑unruliness, ↑fractiousness, ↑willfulness, ↑wilfulness
Hyponyms: ↑cussedness, ↑orneriness
2. deliberately deviating from what is good
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there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism

Syn: ↑perverseness
Derivationally related forms: ↑perverse (for: ↑perverseness), ↑perverse
Hypernyms: ↑evil, ↑evilness

Useful english dictionary. 2012.