degeneracy
n 1: the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
[syn: {degeneration}]
2: 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" [syn: {corruption},
{depravity}]