degeneracy

depravity

Profound moral corruption

• corruptionDishonest abuse of power
• viceBad habit or deputy
• wickednessMoral corruption or evil

decadence · dissipation · perversion · licentiousness · profligacy · immorality · dissolution · debauchery · turpitude · degradation

deterioration

Process of declining quality

• decayGradual organic breakdown
• degradationDecline in condition
• regressionReturn to former state

atrophy · devolution · retrogression · descent · downfall · collapse · worsening · erosion · rot · decomposition

disorder

Absence of organization

• randomnessLack of predictable pattern
• chaosComplete disorder and confusion
• thermodynamicsScience of heat-energy relationships

equilibrium · Boltzmann · microstates · probability · information theory · Shannon · uncertainty · noise · complexity · stochastic

quantum

Smallest discrete unit

• energy levelsGradations of physical vitality
• eigenstateOperator-invariant quantum state
• spectral linesDiscrete wavelength emission patterns

orbital · electron · symmetry · splitting · perturbation · hydrogen · atomic · spin · angular momentum · Stark

singularity

Point where values explode

• edge caseExtreme parameter scenario
• special caseInstance warranting distinct treatment
• collapseSudden structural failure

ill-conditioned · colinearity · overdetermined · underdetermined

• deviancedeviance, perversion, perversity, aberration, abnormality
• moral statesmorality, immorality, virtue, vice, righteousness
• societal decaydecline, decay, degradation, deterioration, disintegration
• vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
• quantum physicsquantum mechanics, quantum superposition, quantum state, quantum states, quantum entanglement
• filthdirt, grime, dirty, filthy, muck