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Degeneration Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Degeneration?
[n] passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
[n] the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality [n] the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities Synonyms | Synonyms for Degeneration: decadence | decadency | degeneracy | devolution | retrogression Related Terms | Find terms related to Degeneration: abandon | abandonment | abjection | about-face | accommodation | adaptation | adjustment | alteration | amelioration | apostasy | atrophy | betterment | break | change | change of heart | changeableness | closed loop | closed sequence | comedown | constructive change | continuity | conversion | corruptedness | corruption | corruptness | current-control circuit | debasement | decadence | decadency | declension | declination | decline | defection | deformation | degeneracy | degenerateness | degenerative change | degradation | demoralization | demotion | depravation | depravedness | depravity | depreciation | derogation | descent | deterioration | deviation | devolution | difference | discontinuity | dissoluteness | divergence | diversification | diversion | diversity | downfall | downgrade | downtrend | downturn | downward mobility | downward trend | drop | dying | ebb | effeteness | fading | failing | failure | failure of nerve | fall | falling-off | feedback | fitting | flip-flop | flip-flop circuit | gradual change | improvement | involution | lapse | loss of tone | melioration | mitigation | modification | modulation | moral pollution | moral turpitude | overthrow | perversion | positive feedback | process loop | profligacy | qualification | quality loop | radical change | realignment | re-creation | redesign | reform | reformation | regression | remaking | renewal | reprobacy | reshaping | restructuring | retrocession | retrogradation | retrogression | reversal | reversed feedback | revival | revivification | revolution | rottenness | shift | slippage | slump | sudden change | switch | total change | transition | turn | turnabout | turpitude | upheaval | variation | variety | violent change | wane | worsening See Also | abasement | abiotrophy | abjection | attack | cataplasia | degradation | obsolescence | process | shift | transformation | transmutation Degeneration In Webster's Dictionary \De*gen`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
d['e]g['e]n['e]ration.]
1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having
become worse; decline; degradation; debasement;
degeneracy; deterioration.
Our degeneration and apostasy. --Bates.
2. (Physiol.) 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. (Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of
any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or
organs; hereditary degradation of type.
4. The thing degenerated. [R.]
Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations. --Sir
T. Browne.
{Amyloid degeneration}, {Caseous degeneration}, etc. See
under {Amyloid}, {Caseous}, etc.
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