change of state - the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics

dehumanisation, dehumanization - the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities; "science has been blamed for the dehumanization of modern life"

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

subversion, corruption - destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"

demoralization, demoralisation - destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy

deadening, constipation, stultification, impairment - 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

humiliation - state of disgrace or loss of self-respect

decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degeneration - the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

depth - (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the depths of addiction"