Synonyms for degeneration
dɪˌdʒɛn əˈreɪ ʃənde·gen·er·a·tion

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1. degeneration, devolutionnoun

   the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

   Synonyms:
   devolution, decadence, degeneracy, retrogression, decadency, devolvement

2. degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, decadencynoun

   the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

   Synonyms:
   retrogression, devolution, corruption, putrefaction, depravity, degeneracy, depravation, decadency, decadence

3. degeneration, retrogressionnoun

   passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

   Synonyms:
   reversion, retrogression, devolution, regression, degeneracy, decadency, regress, retroversion, decadence

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1. degenerationnoun

   Synonyms:
   degeneracy

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1. degenerationnoun

   Synonyms:
   deterioration, decline, retrogradation, degeneracy, vitiation

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1. List of paraphrases for "degeneration":

   degeneracy, degenerative, decay, degradation

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1. Chad Hales:

   Alzheimer's disease causes degeneration of brain cells, and this leads to the outward symptoms you see on a day-to-day basis, this includes problems early on with short-term memory and later problems with speaking and executive dysfunction, like managing cell phones, medications, and finances. Patients can also have depression or other neuropsychiatric symptoms, like delusions or hallucinations.

2. Marc Werner:

   There are many eye diseases that can cause loss of vision (glaucoma, macular degeneration), or loss of life (ocular melanoma), which may have no signs or symptoms but can be detected during a thorough eye exam.

3. Kapil Bharti:

   While researchers have used embryonic stem cell derived cells to treat age-related macular degeneration, (the RIKEN study) is the first study that used induced pluripotent stem cells.

4. Georges Clemenceau:

   America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

5. William Ralph Inge:

   I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.