WHAT IS A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT? Hostile work environment is created where the prohibited conduct is so severe or pervasive that a reasonable person in employeeâs circumstances would have considered the work environment to be hostile or abusive.
descent (plural descents) 1  An instance of descending. 2  A way down. 3  A sloping passage or incline.  Lineage or hereditary 1  derivation. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline. ( topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing.
Medical Definition of descent. 1  1: the act or process of descending from a higher to a lower location descent of the testes into the scrotum. 2  2a: derivation from an ancestorb: the fact or process of originating by generation from an ancestral stock (as a species or genus)