degeneration
See also: Degeneration and dégénération
English edit
Etymology edit
From French dégénération, from Latin dēgenerātiō.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˌdʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: de‧gen‧er‧ation
Noun edit
degeneration (usually uncountable, plural degenerations)
- (uncountable, countable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
- 1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible:
- The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.
- 1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 10:
- Hence, regional soil degenerations and podsolization was probably an important factor contributing to the retrogressive change in the forest composition at the end of the mesocratic phase..
- (uncountable) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
- fatty degeneration of the liver
- (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- (countable) A thing that has degenerated.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- cockle, aracus, […] and other degenerations
Synonyms edit
- (process or state of growing worse): decadence, decline, degradation, debasement, degeneracy, deterioration
- (gaming slang): nerf
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
process or state of growing worse
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condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become diminished
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gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants
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something degenerated
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Danish edit
Noun edit
degeneration c (singular definite degenerationen, not used in plural form)
Declension edit
Declension of degeneration
| common gender |
Singular | |
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| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | degeneration | degenerationen |
| genitive | degenerations | degenerationens |
Further reading edit
Swedish edit
Noun edit
degeneration c
Declension edit
| Declension of degeneration | ||||
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| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | degeneration | degenerationen | — | — |
| Genitive | degenerations | degenerationens | — | — |