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.
Medical Definition of turgor. : the normal state of turgidity and tension in living cells; especially : the rigidity of a plant that is due to the pressure of the cell contents against the cell walls and that is lost or greatly diminished in wilting. See words that rhyme with turgor.