degradation

1. Changing to a lower state (a less respected state) (synset 100272107)
   is a type of: change of state - the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics
   subtypes:

   • dehumanisation, dehumanization - the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities
   • animalisation, animalization, brutalisation, brutalization - an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities
   • barbarisation, barbarization - an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized
   • bastardisation, bastardization - an act that debases or corrupts
   • corruption, subversion - destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
   • demoralisation, demoralization - destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy
   • constipation, deadening, impairment, stultification - the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
   • popularisation, popularization, vulgarisation, vulgarization - the act of making something attractive to the general public
   • profanation - degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening
   • abasement, humiliation - depriving one of self-esteem
   • vulgarisation, vulgarization - the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined
   same as: debasement
2. A low or downcast state (synset 114464089)
   "each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement"
   is a type of: humiliation - state of disgrace or loss of self-respect
   subtypes:

   • decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degeneration - the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
   • depth - (usually plural) a low moral state
   same as: abasement, abjection

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