Meaning of DEGENERATION
| Pronunciation: | | di`jenu'reyshun
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- [n] passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
- [n] the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
- [n] the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
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| | Synonyms: | | decadence, decadency, degeneracy, devolution, retrogression |
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| | Antonyms: | | development, evolution | | |
| | See Also: | | abasement, abiotrophy, abjection, attack, cataplasia, degradation, obsolescence, process, shift, transformation, transmutation | |
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| | Definition: | |  Degeneration
Max Nordau was a famous writer, a practicing physician, a bourgeois exemplar of enterprise and energy when his Degeneration appeared in Germany in 1892. He argued that the spirit of the times was characterized by enervation, exhaustion, hysteria, egotism, and inability to adjust to act. Culture had degenerated, he said, and if criminals, prostitutes, anarchists, and lunatics, were degenerations, so were the authors and artists of the era. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*gen`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
d['e]g['e]n['e]ration.]
1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having
become worse; decline; degradation; debasement;
degeneracy; deterioration.
Our degeneration and apostasy. --Bates.
2. (Physiol.) 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;
as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
3. (Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of
any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or
organs; hereditary degradation of type.
4. The thing degenerated. [R.]
Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations. --Sir
T. Browne.
{Amyloid degeneration}, {Caseous degeneration}, etc. See
under {Amyloid}, {Caseous}, etc.
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| | Definition: | | Degeneration is the impairment or worsening of the function of an organ. |
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