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Harriet Babcock has written: 'An experiment in the measurement of mental deterioration' -- subject(s): Psychological tests, Mental efficiency
Deterioration to what or who?
Smoking can lead to the deterioration of one's health.
Poor nutrition leads to the deterioration of the body.
What impact did slavery have on the deterioration of the Roman economy?
Dementia means deterioration of intellectual functioning.
David Shakow has written: 'Adaptation in schizophrenia' -- subject(s): Psychological Adaptation, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenic Psychology, Set (Psychology), Schizophrenic psychology 'The nature of deterioration in schizophrenic conditions' -- subject(s): Dementia
The noun form for the verb to deteriorate is deterioration.
1-Deterioration is a process that is more gradual and less severe than degradation=) deterioration in one's health condition, in relations etc... 2-Unlike degradation, deterioration is more often followed by the preposition" in" than "of" 3-Though it can be used to designate physical decline, degradation has more moral connotations than deterioration
Deterioration, from Latin deteriorare "to make worse", from deterior "lower, worse"~the environment is worsening its condition