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Degeneracy vs Debasement - What's the difference?

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Degeneracy is a related term of debasement.


As nouns the difference between degeneracy and debasement

is that degeneracy is the state of being degenerate (in all senses) while debasement is the act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality.

degeneracy

English

Noun

(wikipedia degeneracy) (degeneracies)
  • the state of being degenerate (in all senses)

    • debasement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality.
  • * 1832 , , "Bon Bon":
    • His large water-dog was acquainted with the fact, and upon the approach of his master, betrayed his sense of inferiority by a sanctity of deportment, a debasement of the ears, and a dropping of the lower jaw not altogether unworthy of a dog.
  • * 1912 , , The Reef , ch. 33:
    • She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses.
  • * 2009 , Gilbert Cruz, " The Many Faces of Addiction (Book review of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life'' by Benoit Denizet-Lewis)," ''Time , 12 Jan.:
    • There's something ugly and fascinating about reading such intimate tales of debasement and depression and failure and self-doubt.
  • The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

    • Translations

    (The act of debasing or the state of being debased) (trans-mid) (trans-bottom) (The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins) * German: (trans-mid) * Spanish: (trans-bottom)