Degeneration synonyms

dĭ-jĕn'ə-rā'shən

Category:

atrophy
A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use:
1
0
decline
The process or result of declining, especially:
1
0
deterioration
The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
1
1
declension
(Grammar): A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
0
0
degeneracy
A degenerate action
0
0
better (related)
Advantage
0
0
retrogression
A deterioration or decline to a previous state
0
0
Advertisement
devolution
The passing (of property, rights, authority, etc.) from one person to another
0
0
decadence
Lavish or sensual self-indulgence
0
0
decadency
Decadence.
0
0
degenerative-disease (related)
0
0
degenerative (related)
0
0
demyelination (related)
0
0
wallerian (related)
0
0
Advertisement
cystoid (related)
0
0
atherosclerosis (related)
0
0
paralysis (related)
0
0
declination
(Astron.) The angular distance of a celestial body north or south from the celestial equator: it is used with right ascension to find an exact position in the sky
0
1
Find another word for degeneration. In this page you can discover 18 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for degeneration, like: atrophy, decline, deterioration, declension, degeneracy, better, retrogression, devolution, decadence, decadency and degenerative-disease.
Trending topics
More Articles

Degeneration Sentence Examples

  • So, too, degeneration is not to be lightly assumed as the explanation of a simplicity of structure.

  • The variety of special developments of structure accompanying the atrophy of typical organs in the Opisthobranchia and general degeneration of organization is very great.

  • A survey of the vegetable kingdom indicates that evolution has proceeded, on the whole, from the simple to the complex; at the same time, as has been already mentioned, evidence of reduction or degeneration in common.

  • Autolysis is a disintegration of dead tissues brought about by the action of their own ferments, while degeneration takes place in the still living cell.

  • Careful annual selection by hand of the best seed is the only way to prevent degeneration.

More sentences

Words that mention degeneration in the Dictionary

Words near degeneration in the Thesaurus