noun. undefined

noun. The process of degenerating.

noun. The state of being degenerate.

noun. The presence in the genetic code of multiple codons for the same amino acid.

noun. The tendency to degenerate or deteriorate; decrease of excellence in essential qualities; a downward course, as from better to worse, or from good to bad.

noun. The state of being or of having become degenerate; a deteriorated condition: as, the degeneracy of the age.

noun. Synonyms Debasement, degenerateness.

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

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

noun. the state of being degenerate (in all senses)

noun. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

noun. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

"How often I have I known him affect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest himself with a temporary degree of popularity; while, in fact, his heart was bursting to witness what he called the degeneracy of the times, the decay of activity among the aged, and the want of zeal in the rising generation."

abasement  abjection  degradation  immorality  

corruption  decadence  declension  decrepitude  degeneration  

debasement  degenerateness  degeneration  degradation  depravity