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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˌdʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən
• ハイフネーション: de‧gen‧er‧ation

名詞

degeneration (usually uncountable, plural degenerations)

1. (uncountable, countable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
   • 1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible:

     The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.

   • 1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 10:

     Hence, regional soil degenerations and podsolization was probably an important factor contributing to the retrogressive change in the forest composition at the end of the mesocratic phase..

   • 2025 October 12, Simon Tisdall, quoting Emmanuel Macron, “France is not alone in its crisis of political faith – belief in a democratic world is vanishing”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Emmanuel Macron sounded like a man in grief. Not angry, not defiant, just a little triste. Europe, he lamented, was suffering a “degeneration of democracy”.

2. (uncountable) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.

   fatty degeneration of the liver

3. (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
4. (countable) A thing that has degenerated.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     cockle, aracus, […] and other degenerations

同意語

• (process or state of growing worse): decadence, decline, degradation, debasement, degeneracy, deterioration
• (gaming slang): nerf

派生語

関連する語

• degenerate
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