[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

declension \declen"sion\, n. apparently corrupted fr. f.
   d'eclinaison, fr. l. declinatio, fr. declinare. see
   decline, and cf. declination.
   1. the act or the state of declining; declination; descent;
      slope.
      1913 webster

            the declension of the land from that place to the
            sea.                                  --t. burnet.
      1913 webster

   2. a falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency;
      deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of
      science, of a state, etc.
      1913 webster

            seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts
            to base declension.                   --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a
      declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
      1913 webster

   4. gram.
      a inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to
          the grammatical cases.
      b the form of the inflection of a word declined by
          cases; as, the first or the second declension of
          nouns, adjectives, etc.
      c rehearsing a word as declined.
          1913 webster

   note: the nominative was held to be the primary and original
         form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the
         variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings
         hence called casus, cases, or fallings from the
         nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the
         various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from
         the noun's upright form, was called a declension.
         --harris.
         1913 webster

   declension of the needle, declination of the needle.
      1913 webster
see also:
decline declination declension of the needle 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

declension
     n 1: the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in
          indo-european languages
     2: process of changing to an inferior state syn: deterioration,
         decline in quality, worsening
     3: a downward slope or bend syn: descent, declivity, fall,
         decline, declination, downslope ant: ascent
     4: a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in indo-european
        languages having the same or very similar inflectional
        forms; "the first declension in latin"
see also:
deterioration decline in quality worsening descent declivity fall 
decline declination downslope ascent 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

149 moby thesaurus words for "declension":
   ic analysis, abnegation, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph,
   bound morpheme, cascade, catabasis, cataract, chute, collapse,
   comedown, conjugation, contradiction, crash, cutting, debacle,
   debasement, decadence, decadency, deceleration, declination,
   declinature, decline, decline and fall, declining, decrescendo,
   defluxion, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration,
   degradation, demotion, denial, depravation, depravedness,
   depreciation, deprivation, derivation, derogation, descending,
   descension, descent, deterioration, devolution, difference of form,
   dilapidation, diminuendo, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer,
   disclamation, disobedience, dissent, dive, down, downbend,
   downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour,
   downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend,
   drop, dropping, dwindling, dying, ebb, effeteness, enclitic,
   fading, failing, fall, falling, falling-off, formative, free form,
   gravitation, holding back, immediate constituent analysis,
   inclination, infix, infixation, inflection, involution, lapse,
   loss of tone, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics,
   morphology, morphophonemics, nay, negation, negative,
   negative answer, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent,
   nonobservance, paradigm, plummeting, plunge, pounce, prefix,
   prefixation, proclitic, radical, rapids, recantation, refusal,
   regression, rejection, remission, repudiation, retention, retreat,
   retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, root, ruination,
   slippage, slowdown, slump, stem, stoop, subsidence, suffix,
   suffixation, swoop, theme, thumbs-down, turndown, unwillingness,
   wane, waterfall, withholding, word-formation

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