degeneration

[De*gen`er*a·tion]

Degeneration is a process of decline. Anything that’s getting worse is going through degeneration. A grand old mansion that’s now abandoned and covered with weeds is in a state of degeneration.

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The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.

Noun
passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

Noun
the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

Noun
the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

n.
The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.

n.
That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.

n.
A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.

n.
The thing degenerated.

Degeneration

De*gen`er*a"tion , n. [Cf. F. d'82g'82n'82ration.] 1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.

Our degeneration and apostasy.

2. (Physiol.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. 3. (Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular or organs; hereditary degradation of type. 4. The thing degenerated. [R.]

Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations.

Amyloid degeneration, Caseous degeneration, etc. See under Amyloid, Caseous, etc.

The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.

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Usage Examples

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

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Other Usage Examples

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general in particular in the field of human intelligence.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.