the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

[ Syn: degeneration , decadence , decadency ]

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

[ Syn: corruption , depravation , depravity , putrefaction ]