degeneration
Meaning of degeneration
- The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
- 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
- Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- A thing that has degenerated.
Information about degeneration
- It is a name.
- The plural form of degeneration is: degenerations.
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Hyphenation of degeneration
de-gen-er-a-tion
- It consists of 5 syllables and 12 chars.
- degeneration is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
degeneration synonyms
Meaning devolution:
Meaning degeneracy:
degeneracy, decadence, decadency
Meaning retrogression:
Meaning :
nerf, debasement, decline, degradation, deterioration
Translation of degeneration
- German: Degeneration
- French: dégénérescence, dégénération
- Spanish: degeneración
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