noun
- The state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities.
- synonyms: degeneration, decadence, decadency
- Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction
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