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1. The state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
   - degeneration, decadence, decadency
    
2. Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
   "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration";
   - corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction
    
3. (science and mathematics) the condition of having multiple states or types with the same property

Derived forms: degeneracies

Type of: abasement, abjection, degradation, immorality

Encyclopedia: Degeneracy