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}]