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degeneration:
- déformation; altération de sens; détérioration; décomposition; corruption; décadence; dégénérescence; dégénération; caractère dénaturé; abrutissement
Wiktionary:
- degeneration → dégénération, dégénérescence
- degeneration → dégénérescence, décadence, dégénération

English

Detailed Translations for degeneration from English to French

degeneration:

degeneration [the ~] noun

the degeneration (corruption; deterioration; degeneracy; decomposition; decay)
la déformation; l'altération de sens
- déformation [la ~] noun
- altération de sens [la ~] noun
the degeneration
la détérioration; la décomposition; la corruption; la décadence; la dégénérescence; la dégénération; le caractère dénaturé
- détérioration [la ~] noun
- décomposition [la ~] noun
- corruption [la ~] noun
- décadence [la ~] noun
- dégénérescence [la ~] noun
- dégénération [la ~] noun
- caractère dénaturé [le ~] noun
the degeneration
l'abrutissement
- abrutissement [le ~] noun
the degeneration (deterioration; degeneracy)
la détérioration; la dégénération
- détérioration [la ~] noun
- dégénération [la ~] noun

Translation Matrix for degeneration:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
abrutissement	degeneration	folly; infatuation; stupidity
altération de sens	corruption; decay; decomposition; degeneracy; degeneration; deterioration
caractère dénaturé	degeneration
corruption	degeneration	badness; bribery; corruption; wickedness
décadence	degeneration	decadence; decline
décomposition	degeneration	decay; deterioration; process of rotting; putrefaction; rotting
déformation	corruption; decay; decomposition; degeneracy; degeneration; deterioration	bulge; change of form; defacement; deformity; disfiguredness; distortion; fusion; growing together; intergrowth; malformation; metamorphosis; misshapenness; sag; transformation
dégénération	degeneracy; degeneration; deterioration
dégénérescence	degeneration	badness; decadence; decline; wickedness
détérioration	degeneracy; degeneration; deterioration	affecting; aggravation; change for the worse; coarsening; damage; damaging; decay; depravation; deterioration; harm; harming; injuring; injury; loss; putrefaction; rotting; worsening
-	decadence; decadency; degeneracy; devolution; retrogression

Synonyms for "degeneration":

devolution; process; physical process
degeneracy; decadence; decadency; abasement; degradation; abjection
retrogression; transformation; transmutation; shift

Antonyms for "degeneration":

evolution

Related Definitions for "degeneration":

passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form¹
the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality¹
the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities¹

Wiktionary Translations for degeneration:

degeneration

noun

gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants
- degeneration → dégénération; dégénérescence
condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become diminished
- degeneration → dégénérescence; dégénération

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• degeneration	→ dégénérescence	↔ Degeneration — Rückbildung, Entartung
• degeneration	→ décadence	↔ Dekadenz — Verfall, Entartung, sittlicher und kultureller Niedergang
• degeneration	→ dégénération	↔ degeneratie — ontaarding, verval

Related Translations for degeneration

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