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Definition of Degeneracy

1. Noun. The state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities.

2. Noun. Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles. "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"

Definition of Degeneracy

1. n. The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.

Definition of Degeneracy

1. Noun. the state of being degenerate (in all senses) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Degeneracy

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Medical Definition of Degeneracy

1. The coding of a single amino acid by more than one base triplet (codon). Of the 64 possible codons, three are used for stop signals, leaving 61 for only 20 amino acids. Since all codons can be assigned to amino acids, it is clear that many amino acids must be coded by several different codons, in some cases as many as six. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Degeneracy

degausser degaussers degausses degaussing degazette degazetting degeiko degemination degeminations degen

degender degendered degendering degenders degeneracies degeneracy (current term) degenerate degenerate code degenerate configuration degenerate matter

degenerated degenerately degenerateness degenerates degenerating degeneratio degenerationist degenerationists degenerations

Literary usage of Degeneracy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Human Nature and the Social Order by Charles Horton Cooley (1922)
"CHAPTER XI PERSONAL degeneracy IB A PHASE OP THE QUESTION OP RIGHT AND WRONG ... The question of personal degeneracy is a phase of the question of right or ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The busy reader who has dipped into the works of Morel, Lombroso, Nordau and other writers upon degeneracy, and who has become, perhaps, somewhat confused ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The busy reader who has dipped into the works of Morel, Lombroso, Nordau and other writers upon degeneracy, and who has become, perhaps, somewhat confused ..."

4. The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders: (The Psychoneuroses and Their by Paul Dubois (1908)
"The psychi" tric idea of degeneracy is due to a French alienist. ... He defines this degeneracy thus : " The clearest idea that we can form of human ..."

5. The Diseases of Society: The Vice and Crime Problem by George Frank Lydston (1906)
"The relation of genius to degeneracy has been of late years the subject of considerable controversy. Believing, as I do, in the correctness of the view that ..."

6. Mental Deficiency (amentia) by Alfred Frank Tredgold (1908)
"Such defects are known as stigmata of degeneracy. Stigmata of degeneracy. In recent years much has been said and written about degeneracy, ..."

7. Organic Evolution: A Text Book by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... CHAPTER XVII PARASITISM AND degeneracy Creatures which are not free-living, but depend upon others directly for their food are extremely numerous, ..."

8. Of the Origin and Progress of Language by James Burnett Monboddo (1787)
"The degeneracy af language and other ... than by a degeneracy of the people.-—The want of an ear and voice for ..."

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