degenerazione

Definitions of degenerazione
  1. noun
    moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
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    type of:
    immoralità, malcostume
    the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct
  2. noun
    passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
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    type of:
    alterazione, cambiamento, metamorforsi, modifica, modificazione, mutamento, mutazione, slittamento, trasformazione, variazione
    a qualitative change
  3. noun
    the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
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    antonyms:
    civilizzazione, civiltà, crescita, evoluzione, sviluppo
    a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
    type of:
    processo
    a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
  4. noun
    the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
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    type of:
    abbrutimento, abiezione
    a low or downcast state
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