degeneracy

英 [dɪˈdʒenərəsi]

美 [dɪˈdʒenərəsi]

n. 堕落;腐化

BNC.27680 / COCA.30235

柯林斯词典

N-UNCOUNT 堕落;腐化
If you refer to the behaviour of a group of people asdegeneracy, you mean that you think it is shocking, immoral, or disgusting.
1. ...the moral degeneracy of society.
  社会的道德堕落

noun

moral perversion
1. the luxury and corruption among the upper classes
2. moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
3. its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
4. Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
Synonym:corruptiondepravationdepravityputrefaction
the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
Synonym:degenerationdecadencedecadency