- degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, decadency - the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
--1 is a kind of abasement, degradation, abjection
- corruption, degeneracy, depravity - 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"
--2 is a kind of immorality