degeneracy

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noun

1. 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
• 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

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction, degeneration, decadence, decadency