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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
Charles Horton Cooley

Meaning of "degeneracy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEGENERACY

degeneracy  [dɪˈdʒɛnərəsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEGENERACY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Degeneracy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEGENERACY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of degeneracy in the English dictionary

The first definition of degeneracy in the dictionary is the act or state of being degenerate. Other definition of degeneracy is the process of becoming degenerate. Degeneracy is also the number of degenerate quantum states of a particular orbital, degree of freedom, energy level, etc.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEGENERACY


accuracy
ˈækjʊrəsɪ
aliteracy
eɪˈlɪtərəsɪ
confederacy
kənˈfɛdərəsɪ
conspiracy
kənˈspɪrəsɪ
curacy
ˈkjʊərəsɪ
democracy
dɪˈmɒkrəsɪ
federacy
ˈfɛdərəsɪ
hypocrisy
hɪˈpɒkrəsɪ
illiteracy
ɪˈlɪtərəsɪ
innumeracy
ɪnˈjuːmərəsɪ
inveteracy
ɪnˈvɛtərəsɪ
itineracy
ɪˈtɪnərəsɪ
literacy
ˈlɪtərəsɪ
numeracy
ˈnjuːmərəsɪ
piracy
ˈpaɪrəsɪ
preliteracy
priːˈlɪtərəsɪ
regeneracy
rɪˈdʒɛnərəsɪ
retiracy
rɪˈtaɪərəsɪ
subliteracy
sʌbˈlɪtərəsɪ
unregeneracy
ˌʌnrɪˈdʒɛnərəsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEGENERACY

degas
degassed
degasser
degassing
degauss
degausser
degearing
degender
degeneracies
degenerate
degenerate matter
degenerate state
degenerately
degenerateness
degeneration
degenerationist
degenerative
degenerative joint disease
degenerous
degerm

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEGENERACY

antipiracy
aristocracy
autocracy
computer literacy
Delian Confederacy
emotional literacy
functional illiteracy
inaccuracy
kleptocracy
liberal democracy
magistracy
meritocracy
pinpoint accuracy
plutocracy
racy
social democracy
technocracy
the Confederacy
theocracy
Tracy

Synonyms and antonyms of degeneracy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DEGENERACY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «degeneracy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of degeneracy

Translation of «degeneracy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEGENERACY

Find out the translation of degeneracy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of degeneracy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «degeneracy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

degeneración
570 millions of speakers

English

degeneracy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पतन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الانحطاط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вырождение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

degenerescência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আপজাত্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dégénérescence
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Degenerasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Entartung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

縮退
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

타락
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Degeneracy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự thoái hóa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சீரழிவில் சிக்கித் தவிக்கிறது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निकृष्टावस्था
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yozlaşma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

degenerazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

degeneracja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

виродження
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

degenerare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκφυλισμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontaarding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

degenerering
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

degeneracy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of degeneracy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEGENERACY»

The term «degeneracy» is regularly used and occupies the 69.807 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEGENERACY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about degeneracy

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QUOTES WITH «DEGENERACY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word degeneracy.
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Charles Horton Cooley
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEGENERACY»

Discover the use of degeneracy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to degeneracy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Symmetric Functions, Schubert Polynomials, and Degeneracy Loci
Also studied is the geometry of Grassmannians, flag varieties, and especially, their Schubert varieties. This book examines profound connections that unite these two subjects. The book is divided into three chapters.
Laurent Manivel, 2001
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The Degeneracy Crisis and Victorian Youth
A study of stress in the lives of children in the Victorian age (1837- 1901), extending the consideration set forth in Jordan's 1987 Victorian Childhood, (SUNY Press), and likewise intended primarily not as a work in the history of ...
Thomas Edward Jordan, 1993
3
Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results (LARGE PRINT EDITION)
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Eugene S. Talbot, 2011
4
Note on Degeneracy
Given a linear program in standard form, Min cx s.t.
Alamuru S. Krishna, 1989
5
Thermal Loading and Modal Frequency Degeneracy in Optical ...
This work presents experimental results of thermal loading in an optical resonator as well as simulations for predicting thermal performance of any interferometer configuration.
Amber L. Bullington, Stanford University. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 2009
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A Study in Youthful Degeneracy
Reprint From The Pedagogical Seminary, December, 1896.
George Ellsworth Dawson, 2010
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The Destroying Angel: Sex, Fitness & Food in the Legacy of ...
A study of the historical genesis and present-day persistence of antisexualism in American healthcare and social/legal policy.
John Money, 1985
8
Elliptic, Hyperbolic and Mixed Complex Equations with ...
The method revealed in this book is unlike any other, in which the hyperbolic number and hyperbolic complex function in hyperbolic domains, and the complex number and complex function in elliptic domains are used.
Guo Chun Wen, 2008
9
Degeneracy Loci and G2 Flags
The flag bundles are the universal cases of general degeneracy locus problems in algebraic geometry. Specifically, let V be a vector bundle of rank n on a variety X, and let ip : V ® V — > k be a symplectic or nondegenerate symmetric bilinear ...
David E. Anderson, 2009
10
The Degeneracy of the Present Age as to Principles. A Sermon ...
Thomas Sherwill. 2 Tim. IV. 3. For the time will come y when they will not endure sound doBrine — . E that will but give himself the leisure to take a free and impartial Survey of our present Constitution, considered in a Religious or Moral ...
Thomas Sherwill, 1704

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEGENERACY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term degeneracy is used in the context of the following news items.
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North Korea's Africa Strategy and What It Means for the West
... closely with this view, as its propaganda stations have frequently described gay rights in the West as the product of moral degeneracy. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Protein functional features are reflected in the patterns of mRNA …
The degeneracy of the genetic code makes it possible for the same amino acid string to be coded by different messenger RNA (mRNA) ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
3
Madness, Music and Modernity: Studying Structural Oppression …
So far I have seen these properties associated with weakness, failure, degeneracy, and subversion of social order. My focus has been on ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
4
Causing and Condoning Sinful Behavior: Part V
Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as 'normal, natural, healthy'.” The natural progression after the decades of the sexual ... «Patriot Post, Jul 15»
5
A New Wall Street Memoir Full of Hookers, Cocaine, and Other Cliches
LeFevre feeds the public's hunger for proof that Wall Street is full of degenerate sociopaths, while also glamorizing that degeneracy. Those ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
6
Maybe there is hope for this world...
It's pretty obvious that we live in a world totally upside down when it comes to matters of morality and decency. Everywhere we look degeneracy ... «Knrs, Jul 15»
7
Will FIFA's World Cup Sexism Ever Die?
For another, they fear their lucrative soccer empires will take a hit if FIFA's degeneracy turns fans away from the game. The pros and cons of a ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
8
Paris menswear round-up SS16
The touchstones were clear: thrift, surf, obstinacy, degeneracy. It's so far from the politeness of other luxury brands, it needs a whole new ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
9
Thomas Jefferson Built This Country On Mastodons
None of it bent Jefferson's ear—until Volume V, published in 1766, in which Buffon proposed his aptly titled “Theory of American Degeneracy.”. «Atlas Obscura, Jul 15»
10
Old Ramadans, old friendships
TODAY, as people draw away from spirituality and suffer the outcomes of moral degeneracy, the number of unhappy people increases. «New Straits Times Online, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
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