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/dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹəsi/
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/dɪˈd͡ʒenəɹəsi/
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The state of being degenerate (in all senses).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: baseness, depravity, perversion, corruption, defilement, degeneracy, degradation, depravation, depravedness, impurity, iniquity, lewdity, malignity, misdoing, misguilt, obliquity, peccability, pollution, pravity, sin, sinfulness, turpitude, vitiation, wickedness, wrongdoing
Antonyms: none provided
The ability of one part of the brain to take over another's function without being overexerted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, neuroscience, sciences
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A limiting case of a class of objects which appears to be qualitatively different from (and usually simpler than) the rest of the class.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: immorality
the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: degeneration, decadence, decadency
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: abasement, degradation, abjection
From degener(ate) + -acy.
