Degeneracy - Definition

n 1: the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
[syn: degeneracy, degeneration, decadence,
decadency]
2: 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" [syn: corruption, degeneracy,
depravation, depravity, putrefaction]