Traditional Culture and Modern Culture: Man's Fall from Grace. In some ways, traditional culture and modern culture are alike. Any culture is a system of learned and shared meanings. People learn and share things over the course of generations, and so we say they are a culture. Traditional and modern culture function similarly because both are ways of thinking, ways of relating to people and to the universe.
Turpitude is defined as wickedness or sinfulness. An example of turpitude is behavior considered immoral and sinful by society. 1  baseness; vileness; depravity.  an instance of this.
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical. turgor. Distension of a plant cell wall and membrane by the fluid contents. Turgor. the state of tension of cell membranes that is caused by the osmotic pressure of the intracellular fluid (P int), the osmotic pressure of the external solution (P ext), and the resilience of the cell membrane.