Degeneration vs Decadence - What's the difference?
degeneration | decadence |
(uncountable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
* 1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible ,
(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.
(uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
(countable) A thing that has degenerated.
* Sir Thomas Browne
A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 35
As nouns the difference between degeneration and decadence
is that degeneration is degeneration, morbidity while decadence is decadence.degeneration
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.
- fatty degeneration of the liver
- cockle, aracus, and other degenerations
Synonyms
* (process or state of growing worse) decline, degradation, debasement,degeneracy, deteriorationdecadence
English
(wikipedia decadence)Noun
- "Stability, however, is not enough. It leads too easily to stagnation, and thence to decadence ."