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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky