- The act or the state of declining; declination;
descent; slope. - A falling off towards a worse state; a downward
tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of
science, of a state, etc. - Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a
declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination. - Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the
grammatical cases. - The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases;
as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. - Rehearsing a word as declined.
Meaning of 'declension' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . declension
[ n]
Meaning (1): - a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms