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Definition of 'degeneration'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) degeneration
the process of degenerating.

2. degeneration
the condition or state of being degenerate.

Etymology: (1475–85; < LL)

Definition of 'degeneration'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) degeneration, devolution
the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

2. (noun) degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, decadency
the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

3. (noun) degeneration, retrogression
passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

Definition of 'degeneration'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) degeneration
the act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration

2. (noun) degeneration
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. (noun) degeneration
a gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type

4. (noun) degeneration
the thing degenerated

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