Main entry: putrefaction, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, corruption
Definition: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Usage: the luxury and corruption among the upper classes; moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration; its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity; Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
Main entry: decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degeneration
Definition: the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities