Antonyms for degeneration
dɪˌdʒɛn əˈreɪ ʃənde·gen·er·a·tion

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1. degeneration, devolutionnoun

   the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

   Synonyms:
   devolution, decadence, degeneracy, retrogression, decadency, devolvement

2. degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, decadencynoun

   the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

   Synonyms:
   retrogression, devolution, corruption, putrefaction, depravity, degeneracy, depravation, decadency, decadence

3. degeneration, retrogressionnoun

   passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

   Synonyms:
   reversion, retrogression, devolution, regression, degeneracy, decadency, regress, retroversion, decadence

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1. degenerationnoun

   Synonyms:
   deterioration, decline, retrogradation, degeneracy, vitiation

How to use degeneration in a sentence?

1. Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830):

   Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.

2. Kapil Bharti:

   While researchers have used embryonic stem cell derived cells to treat age-related macular degeneration, (the RIKEN study) is the first study that used induced pluripotent stem cells.

3. William Ralph Inge:

   I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

4. Hyon Choi:

   As a major natural antioxidant in the body, uric acid has been estimated to account for more than 50 percent of the antioxidant capacity of plasma, with these potentially neuro-protective properties, uric acid has been hypothesized to protect against oxidative stress, a prominent contributor to dopaminergic neuron degeneration in Parkinson's disease, which may also play an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease.

5. Georges Clemenceau:

   America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

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