Regeneration vs Degeneration - What's the difference?
regeneration | degeneration |
rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal.
(fantasy, gaming) restoration of health or hit points
* 1995 , David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Dungeon master guide for the AD&D game (page 202)
* 2003 , Bastion Press, E. W. Morton, Out for Blood
(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 regeneration and degeneration
is that regeneration is rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal while degeneration is the process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.regeneration
English
Noun
(wikipedia regeneration)- ''The conversion of so many old industrial buildings into living quarters was a major factor in the regeneration .
- The standard ring of regeneration restores one point of damage per turn (and will eventually replace lost limbs or organs).
- Regeneration does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation.
Synonyms
* *Abbreviations
* regendegeneration
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