Degeneration

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The process of degenerating.
  • n. The state of being degenerate.
  • n. Medicine Gradual deterioration of specific tissues, cells, or organs with corresponding impairment or loss of function, caused by injury, disease, or aging.
  • n. Biology The evolutionary decline or loss of a function, characteristic, or structure in an organism or a species.
  • n. Electronics Loss of or gain in power in an amplifier caused by unintentional negative feedback.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
  • n. A thing that has degenerated.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
  • n. The thing degenerated.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A loss or impairment of the qualities peculiar to the race or kind, or to a type; reduction to a lower type in some scale of being.
  • n. Specifically Loss or impairment of natural or proper qualities; descent to an inferior state; the act of becoming or the state of having become inferior, especially with respect to moral qualities.
  • n. In physiology, any process by which a tissue or substance becomes replaced by some other regarded as less highly organized, less complex in composition, of inferior physiological rank, or less suited for the performance of its original functions.
  • n. A degenerate animal or plant; an organism of a degraded type.
  • n. A progressive departure of a family from the normal condition: shown in the first generation by a nervous temperament, moral depravity, and excesses; in the second by tendency to apoplexy and severe neuroses frequently with alcoholism; in the third by mental derangement, suicide, and intellectual weakness; and in the fourth by hereditary imbecility, deformities, arrested development, and sterility.
  • n. In geology, disintegration produced by weathering.
  • n. Wallerian degeneration proceeding in a direction from the periphery toward the center.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
  • n. passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
    • Equivalent
    caseous degeneration   
    Antonym
    regeneration   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    abjection    degradation    abasement   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    decline    degradation    debasement    degeneracy    deterioration   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    deterioration    degeneracy    lesion    atrophy    necrosis   
     
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