Synonyms of the word

degeneration

• n. (uncountable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
• n. (uncountable) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished…
• n. (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular…
• n. (countable) A thing that has degenerated.

abasement

• n. The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low.
• n. The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

abjection

• n. A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
• n. (obsolete, chiefly figuratively) Something cast off; garbage.
• n. (obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
• n. (obsolete) The act of casting off; rejection.
• n. (biology, mycology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores.

decadence

• n. A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay.

decadency

• n. decadence.

degeneracy

• n. the state of being degenerate (in all senses).

degradation

• n. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or…
• n. The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual…
• n. Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
• n. (geology) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
• n. A deleterious change in the chemical structure, physical properties or appearance of a material from natural…
• n. The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
• n. Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
• n. The gradual breakdown of components of a material, as a result of a natural element, i.e.: heat, cold…

devolution

• n. A rolling down.
• n. A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession.
• n. The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another.
• n. (pejorative) Degeneration (as opposed to evolution).
• n. (Britain) The transfer of some powers, and the delegation of some functions, from a central sovereign…

process

• n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
• n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
• n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
• n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
• n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
• n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
• n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
• n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
• v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
• v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
• v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
• v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.

retrogression

• n. A deterioration or decline to a previous state.
• n. (biology) A return to a less complex condition.

shift

• n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
• n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• n. (computing) A bit shift.
• n. (baseball) The infield shift.
• n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
• n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
• n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
• n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• v. (transitive) To change, swap.
• v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• v. (intransitive) To change position.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
• v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of.
• v. (intransitive) To hurry.
• v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

transformation

• n. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
• n. A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
• n. (mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of…
• n. (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived…
• n. (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if…
• n. (politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist…

transmutation

• n. (obsolete) Change, alteration.
• n. The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation.
• n. (alchemy) Specifically, the supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base…
• n. (physics) The actual transformation of one element into another by a nuclear reaction.