Usually means: Decline in function or structure.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word degeneration:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. degeneration: Merriam-Webster
  2. degeneration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. degeneration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. degeneration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. degeneration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Degeneration, degeneration: Wordnik
  7. degeneration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. degeneration: Wiktionary
  9. degeneration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. degeneration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. degeneration: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. degeneration: Dictionary.com
  13. degeneration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Degeneration (Max Nordau), Degeneration (Nordau), Degeneration (algebraic geometry), Degeneration (medical), Degeneration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Degeneration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. degeneration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. degeneration: Rhymezone
  18. Degeneration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. degeneration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. degeneration: FreeDictionary.org
  21. degeneration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. degeneration: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. degeneration: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. degeneration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. degeneration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Degeneration: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  6. degeneration: Medical dictionary

(Note: See degenerations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (degeneration)

noun:  (uncountable, countable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
noun:  (uncountable) 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.
noun:  (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
noun:  (countable) A thing that has degenerated.

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