Degeneration - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|dɪˌdʒenəˈreɪʃn|
Brit.
|dɪˌdʒenəˈreɪʃ(ə)n|
noun
- the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality (syn: devolution)
- the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities (syn: decadence, decadency, degeneracy)
- passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form (syn: retrogression)
- the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities (syn: decadence, decadency, degeneracy)
- passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form (syn: retrogression)
Extra examples
...the organization's degeneration from a movement for political reform to just another political party...
...the troubling degeneration of his memory since he reached middle age...
It is possible in each case to trace the process of degeneration.
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