Associations to the word «Degeneracy»

Wiktionary

DEGENERACY, noun. The state of being degenerate (in all senses)

Dictionary definition

DEGENERACY, noun. The state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities.
DEGENERACY, noun. Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "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".

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke