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Another word for degeneracy

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degeneracy

n.

Deterioration
degeneration, decline, decadence; see decay 1.
Perversion
depravity, debasement, turpitude; see evil 1, perversion 2.

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Another word for degeneracy

noun

Descent to a lower level or condition:

atrophy, decadence, declension, declination, decline, degeneration, deterioration. See better

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In this period of degeneracy there were none the less an awakening to religious needs and a profound longing for a new revelation of truth, which should satisfy at once the intellect and the religious emotions.
The whole account suggests a Tatar clan in the last stage of degeneracy.
To-day their descendants are not more subject to goitre and cretinism than those dwelling around them, and are recognized by tradition and not by features or physical degeneracy.

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