Dutch Meaning of degeneration

degeneratie

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Definitions and Meaning of degeneration in English

Wordnet

degeneration (n)

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

the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

Webster

degeneration (n.)

The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.

That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.

A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.

The thing degenerated.

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degeneratie

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degenerating => degenererend, degenerateness => degeneratie, degenerately => ontaard, degenerated => gedegenereerd, degenerate => ontaard,