Akademik

degeneracy
noun
1. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
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the luxury and corruption among the upper classes

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moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration

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its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity

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Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction

Syn: ↑corruption, ↑depravation, ↑depravity, ↑putrefaction
Derivationally related forms: ↑depraved (for: ↑depravity), ↑deprave (for: ↑depravity), ↑deprave (for: ↑depravation)
Hypernyms: ↑immorality
2. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
Syn: ↑degeneration, ↑decadence, ↑decadency
Derivationally related forms: ↑decadent (for: ↑decadency), ↑decadent (for: ↑decadence), ↑degenerate (for: ↑degeneration)
Hypernyms: ↑abasement, ↑degradation, ↑abjection

Useful english dictionary. 2012.