decadence
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Etymology [edit]
From French décadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia (“decay”), from *decadens (“decaying”), present participle of *decadere (“to decay”); see decay.
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Noun [edit]
decadence (countable and uncountable; plural decadences)
- A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
- 1956 — Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 35
- "Stability, however, is not enough. It leads too easily to stagnation, and thence to decadence."
- 1956 — Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 35
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Translations [edit]
state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration
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External links [edit]
- decadence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- decadence in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911