What's the difference between pravity and privity?

Pravity


Definition:

  • (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature.

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Privity


Definition:

  • (a.) Privacy; secrecy; confidence.
  • (a.) Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.
  • (a.) A private matter or business; a secret.
  • (a.) The genitals; the privates.
  • (a.) A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.

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