Degeneration
Degeneration noun - A change to a lower state or level.
Vice and degeneration are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vice" instead a noun "Degeneration".
Vice
Vice noun - Immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society.
Usage example: that section of the city is legendary for crime and vice
Degeneration and vice are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Degeneration" instead a noun "Vice".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- profligacy and degeneration
- profligacy and vice
- dissolution and degeneration
- dissolution and vice
- evil and degeneration
- evil and vice
- decay and degeneration
- decay and vice
- failing and degeneration
- failing and vice
- degradation and degeneration
- degradation and vice
- depravity and degeneration
- depravity and vice
How words are described
| particular | particular degeneration | particular vice |
| complete | complete degeneration | complete vice |
| moral | moral degeneration | moral vice |
| racial | racial degeneration | racial vice |
| Other adjectives: crippling. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Clemens and his co-writer, Charles Dudley Warner, condemned the then present-day age of degeneration, vice, and materialism as a false, corrupted Golden Age.
Source: Creator / Mark Twain
Cite this Source
Vice and Degeneration. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/degeneration/vice
Degeneration & Vice. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/degeneration/vice>.
Vice or Degeneration. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/degeneration/vice.
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