degeneracy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: degeneracy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for degeneracy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
degeneracy n the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities Synonym(s): degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, decadency moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction" Synonym(s): corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Degeneracy \Degen"eracy\, n. [From {Degenerate}, a.] 1. The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. Willful degeneracy* from goodness. --Tillotson. 2. The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery. --Addison. To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. --S. Clarke.