degeneration vs transmutation

degeneration and transmutation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
degeneration	Yes	No	No	No
transmutation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, transmutation is a hypernym of degeneration; that is, transmutation is a word with a broader meaning than degeneration:

Other hypernyms of degeneration include shift, transformation.

degeneration (noun)	transmutation (noun)
passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form	an act that changes the form or character or substance of something
the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality	a qualitative change
the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities	(physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)