degeneracy
Nouns
- (n) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities decadence, decadency, degeneration,
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(n) 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