DEGENERACY

corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction

(noun) 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”

degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, decadency

(noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

degeneracy (countable and uncountable, plural degeneracies)

the state of being degenerate (in all senses)

(neuroscience) the ability of one part of the brain to take over another's function without being overexerted.

Coordinate term: compensation

Source: Wiktionary

De*gen"er*a*cy, n. Etym: [From Degenerate, a.]

1. The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. Willful degeneracy from goodness. Tillotson.

2. The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery. Addison. To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. S. Clarke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition