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say it: di-JEN-ur-uh-see
degeneracy is a noun meaning "the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for degeneracy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.