It is the best word to describe the Western World and it is defined as:
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de·gen·er·ate – ADJECTIVE[dɪˈdʒɛn(ə)rət]degenerate (adjective)
technicallacking some usual or expected property or quality.Opposite:
mathematics(of a type of equation, curve, etc.) equivalent to a simpler type, especially when a variable or parameter is set to zero. physics(of an energy level) corresponding to more than one quantum state. physics(of matter) at densities so high that gravitational contraction is counteracted, either by the Pauli exclusion principle or by an analogous quantum effect between closely packed neutrons. biologyhaving reverted to a simpler form as a result of losing a complex or adaptive structure present in the ancestral form:“degenerate offshoots from the main line of vertebrate progress”NOUN [dɪˈdʒɛn(ə)rət]degenerate (noun) · degenerates (plural noun)VERB [dɪˈdʒɛnəreɪt]degenerate (verb) · degenerates (third person present) · degenerated (past tense) · degenerated (past participle) · degenerating (present participle)ORIGINlate 15th century: from Latin degeneratus ‘no longer of its kind’, from the verb degenerare, from degener ‘debased’, from de- ‘away from’ + genus, gener- ‘race, kind’.***
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