degeneration
See also: Degeneration and dégénération
English
Etymology
From French dégénération, from Latin dēgenerātiō.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˌdʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: de‧gen‧er‧ation
Noun
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..
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- (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 152706203:
- cockle, aracus, […] and other degenerations
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Synonyms
- (process or state of growing worse): decline, degradation, debasement, degeneracy, deterioration
- (gaming slang): nerf
Derived terms
- hepatolenticular degeneration
- hyaline degeneration
- macular degeneration
- neurodegeneration
- Wallerian degeneration
Related terms
- degenerate
- degenerative
Translations
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
Noun
degeneration c (singular definite degenerationen, not used in plural form)
- degeneration
Declension
Declension of degeneration
common gender | Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | degeneration | degenerationen |
genitive | degenerations | degenerationens |
Further reading
- “degeneration” in Den Danske Ordbog
Swedish
Noun
degeneration c
- degeneration
Declension
Declension of degeneration | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | degeneration | degenerationen | — | — |
Genitive | degenerations | degenerationens | — | — |
Further reading
- degeneration in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- degeneration in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- degeneration in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)