Thesaurus: degeneracy

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1. a. The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
2. a. The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.
3. n. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
4. n. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
5. 1. The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. Willful degeneracy from goodness. Tillotson. 2. The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery. Addison. To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. S. Clarke.
6. n:100 n. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities