degeneracy

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Degeneracy had not been replaced by morality, wrote artist Oskar Schlemmer, but by “tried and true purveyors of kitsch.”

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2025

Degeneracy is believed to be a cellular mechanism to reduce the negative impact of random mutations.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

In volume five of his 1781 book Natural History, General and Particular, Buffon coined his Theory of American Degeneracy.

From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2020

Educators across the new nation were determined to show young schoolchildren how misguided the theory of New World Degeneracy was.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2012

Degeneracy, rather than signaling the downfall of a society, as it once did, will now signal peace for a troubled world.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole