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.