All devolution synonyms

noun devolution

• disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
• recession — a return of ownership to a former possessor.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• deterioration — the act or process of deteriorating.
• downturn — an act or instance of turning down or the state of being turned down: the downturn of a lower lip in a permanent pout.
• breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
• undoing — the reversing of what has been done; annulling.
• collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
• debacle — A debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure.
• overthrow — to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
• destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
• sensuality — sensual nature: the sensuality of Keats's poetry.
• downfall — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
• dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
• lechery — unrestrained or excessive indulgence of sexual desire.
• dissipation — the act of dissipating.
• lewdness — inclined to, characterized by, or inciting to lust or lechery; lascivious.
• regression — the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• decay — When something such as a dead body, a dead plant, or a tooth decays, it is gradually destroyed by a natural process.
• declension — the inflection of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives for case, number, and gender
• corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
• degeneration — the process of degenerating
• incontinence — unable to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces.
• lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
• degradation — You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality.
• licentiousness — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• debasement — Debasement is the action of reducing the value or quality of something.
• intemperance — excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
• downgrade — a downward slope, especially of a road.
• degeneracy — If you refer to the behaviour of a group of people as degeneracy, you mean that you think it is shocking, immoral, or disgusting.
• gluttony — excessive eating and drinking.
• flop — to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
• ebb — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
• abatement — Abatement means a reduction in the strength or power of something or the reduction of it.
• descent — A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position.
• waning — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
• wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
• comedown — If you say that something is a comedown, you think that it is not as good as something else that you have just done or had.
• senility — the state of being senile, especially the weakness or mental infirmity of old age.
• dive — to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
• decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
• diminution — the act, fact, or process of diminishing; lessening; reduction.
• relapse — to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
• lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
• failing — Slang. an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance: Their app update is a massive fail. the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way: His online post is full of fail. a person who fails in this way.
• pratfall — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.