degenerasi

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch degeneratie, from French dégénération.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /deɡenəˈrasi/
• Rhymes: -si, -i
• Hyphenation: dé‧gé‧nê‧ra‧si

dégénêrasi (plural degenerasi-degenerasi)

1. degeneration:
   1. (uncountable) the process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
   2. (uncountable, pathology) that condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
   3. (uncountable) gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.

• “degenerasi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.