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Vitiation vs Degeneracy - What's the difference?

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Vitiation is a related term of degeneracy.


As nouns the difference between vitiation and degeneracy

is that vitiation is a reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something while degeneracy is the state of being degenerate (in all senses).

vitiation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something
  • * '>citation
    • Lincoln once reprimanded a young army officer for in-
    dulging in a violent controversy with an associate. "No
    man who is resolved to make the most of himself," said
    Lincoln, "can spare time for personal contention. Still less
    can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitia-
    tion     of his temper and the loss of self-control. [...]
  • moral corruption
  • an abolition or abrogation

    • Related terms

    * vitiate * vice

    degeneracy

    English

    Noun

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