degeneracy

Noun
Synonyms: degenerationdecadencedecadencycorruptiondepravationdepravityputrefaction

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)

  1. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualitiesSynonyms: degenerationdecadencedecadencyType of abasement, degradation
  2. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles“the luxury and corruption among the upper classes”“moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration”“its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity”“Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction”Synonyms: corruptiondepravationdepravityputrefactionType of immorality

Related words decadent adjective

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

De·gen′er·a·cy noun

Origin: From Degenerate, adjective

1. The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.

Willful degeneracy from goodness.— John Tilllotson

2. The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.

Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery.— Joseph Addison
To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy.— Samuel Clarke

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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