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单词 degeneracy
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Definition of degeneracy in English:

degeneracy

noun dɪˈdʒɛnərəsidəˈdʒɛn(ə)rəsi
mass noun
  • The state or quality of being degenerate.

    the degeneracy of later Roman work
    a slide into moral degeneracy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Gender crossing was at once a symptom and a sign of sexual degeneracy.
    • The ‘decline of morality’ in subsequent Western culture should not be seen as a mere falling-away, but a tendency to degeneracy lying in the very standpoint of moral autonomy itself.
    • When I told him about this tidal wave of degeneracy, he advised me not to panic.
    • Today's assault on working-class degeneracy only confirms how degenerate the political and cultural elite has become.
    • Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
    • I'm not having her study among such degeneracy.
    • He clearly believes that a culture that permits women and homosexuals to run around freely, just like normal people, is on the verge of collapse from sheer moral degeneracy.
    • Coming on like a gang of existentialists they glorified degeneracy, nihilism, decadence and alcoholism.
    • To many it is considered a sign of degeneracy not to be interested in it.
    • They think it rather the corruption and degeneracy than the sound constitution of a republic.
    • Dazzling, rapid-fire prose and fast, dry dialogue lend tragicomic humour to these tales of individualists who nosedive inevitably into degeneracy, despair, desperation and disillusion.
    • Sometimes, it changes people's lives, sometimes it leads people to degeneracy.
    • A corrupting influence on young boys (nothing said about girls), a symbol of decadence and degeneracy, everything else you can imagine in between.
    • In time, idiocy, defined once again as permanent and untreatable, became identified with degeneracy, willful noncompliance and moral corruption.
    • After 1870, religious bigotry gave way to racial bigotry; all non-Anglo Saxon peoples were described as permanently inferior due to their intellectual, moral, and physical degeneracy.
    • ‘The song is indicative of perhaps more degeneracy and depravity than I've actually experienced,’ he admits.
    • Opium smokers had a darker reputation connected to poverty, vice, and degeneracy, and aroused public antipathy long before other types of addicts did so.
    • But he never succumbed to the lure of rock 'n' roll degeneracy, generally avoiding both the gossip columns and the gutter.
    • Conversely, it is conceivable that they just enjoy drenching themselves in an acid rain of squalor and degeneracy, and that their disciples are self-loathing masochists.
    • But I do recognize forms of degeneracy and decadence, which have been imposed upon human behavior, which some people mistake, for the essential nature of man.
    Synonyms
    corruption, corruptness, decadence, moral decay, dissipation, dissoluteness, dissolution, profligacy, depravity, perversion, pervertedness, vice, immorality, lack of morals, lack of principles, baseness, turpitude, wickedness, evil, sin, sinfulness, ungodliness
    debauchery, lewdness, lechery, lecherousness, lasciviousness, licentiousness, libidinousness, promiscuity, wantonness, libertinism, intemperance
 
 

Definition of degeneracy in US English:

degeneracy

noundəˈjen(ə)rəsēdəˈdʒɛn(ə)rəsi
  • The state or property of being degenerate.

    a slide into moral degeneracy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He clearly believes that a culture that permits women and homosexuals to run around freely, just like normal people, is on the verge of collapse from sheer moral degeneracy.
    • Today's assault on working-class degeneracy only confirms how degenerate the political and cultural elite has become.
    • Gender crossing was at once a symptom and a sign of sexual degeneracy.
    • In time, idiocy, defined once again as permanent and untreatable, became identified with degeneracy, willful noncompliance and moral corruption.
    • Sometimes, it changes people's lives, sometimes it leads people to degeneracy.
    • Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
    • I'm not having her study among such degeneracy.
    • A corrupting influence on young boys (nothing said about girls), a symbol of decadence and degeneracy, everything else you can imagine in between.
    • To many it is considered a sign of degeneracy not to be interested in it.
    • They think it rather the corruption and degeneracy than the sound constitution of a republic.
    • Conversely, it is conceivable that they just enjoy drenching themselves in an acid rain of squalor and degeneracy, and that their disciples are self-loathing masochists.
    • But he never succumbed to the lure of rock 'n' roll degeneracy, generally avoiding both the gossip columns and the gutter.
    • Coming on like a gang of existentialists they glorified degeneracy, nihilism, decadence and alcoholism.
    • ‘The song is indicative of perhaps more degeneracy and depravity than I've actually experienced,’ he admits.
    • When I told him about this tidal wave of degeneracy, he advised me not to panic.
    • After 1870, religious bigotry gave way to racial bigotry; all non-Anglo Saxon peoples were described as permanently inferior due to their intellectual, moral, and physical degeneracy.
    • Dazzling, rapid-fire prose and fast, dry dialogue lend tragicomic humour to these tales of individualists who nosedive inevitably into degeneracy, despair, desperation and disillusion.
    • Opium smokers had a darker reputation connected to poverty, vice, and degeneracy, and aroused public antipathy long before other types of addicts did so.
    • But I do recognize forms of degeneracy and decadence, which have been imposed upon human behavior, which some people mistake, for the essential nature of man.
    • The ‘decline of morality’ in subsequent Western culture should not be seen as a mere falling-away, but a tendency to degeneracy lying in the very standpoint of moral autonomy itself.
    Synonyms
    corruption, corruptness, decadence, moral decay, dissipation, dissoluteness, dissolution, profligacy, depravity, perversion, pervertedness, vice, immorality, lack of morals, lack of principles, baseness, turpitude, wickedness, evil, sin, sinfulness, ungodliness
 
 
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