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

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche