Another word for degeneration

Descent to a lower level or condition

• atrophy

  1. A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution:
  2. A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use:

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  1. A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution:
  2. A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use:

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• decadence

  1. Lavish or sensual self-indulgence
  2. A literary movement especially of late 19th-century France and England characterized by refined aestheticism, artifice, and the quest for new sensations.
  3. A process, condition, or period of deterioration or decline, as in morals or art; decay.

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  1. Lavish or sensual self-indulgence
  2. A literary movement especially of late 19th-century France and England characterized by refined aestheticism, artifice, and the quest for new sensations.
  3. A process, condition, or period of deterioration or decline, as in morals or art; decay.

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• declension

  1. A class of words of one language with the same or a similar system of inflections, such as the first declension in Latin.
  2. (Gram.) A class of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives having the same or a similar system of inflections to show case
  3. A decline or decrease; deterioration:

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  1. A class of words of one language with the same or a similar system of inflections, such as the first declension in Latin.
  2. (Gram.) A class of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives having the same or a similar system of inflections to show case
  3. A decline or decrease; deterioration:

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• declination

  1. An oblique variation from some definite direction
  2. A falling off, especially from prosperity or vigor; a decline.
  3. (Archaic) Decline; deterioration; decay

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  1. An oblique variation from some definite direction
  2. A falling off, especially from prosperity or vigor; a decline.
  3. (Archaic) Decline; deterioration; decay

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• decline

  1. A downward movement or fall, as in price.
  2. The process or result of declining, especially a deterioration of health:
  3. A period of decline

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  1. A downward movement or fall, as in price.
  2. The process or result of declining, especially a deterioration of health:
  3. A period of decline

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• degeneracy

  1. The state of being degenerate (in all senses)
  2. The process of degenerating.
  3. A degenerate action

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  1. The state of being degenerate (in all senses)
  2. The process of degenerating.
  3. A degenerate action

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• deterioration

  1. The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

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  1. The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

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