Enervation vs Degeneration - What's the difference?
enervation | degeneration |
Act of enervating; debilitation.
State of being enervated; debility.
(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
As nouns the difference between enervation and degeneration
is that enervation is act of enervating; debilitation while degeneration is degeneration, morbidity.enervation
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*degeneration
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(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