Degeneracy Definition & Meaning
degeneracy
- noun
- the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
- 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"
Words that rhyme with degeneracy
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