decadence

English

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Etymology

From French décadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia (“decay”), from Medieval Latin *decadens (“decaying”), present participle of *decadere (“to decay”); see decay.

Noun

decadence (countable and uncountable; plural decadences)

1. 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."

Related terms

• decadent
• decay

Translations

state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration

Armenian: անկումայնություն (hy) (ankumaynut’yun), անկում (hy) (ankum) Bulgarian: упадък (bg) m., декадентство (bg) n. Croatian: dekadencija f., dekadansa f., propadanje n. Finnish: dekadenssi (fi), moraalinen mädännäisyys German: Dekadenz (de) f. Greek: παρακμή (el) f. (parakme) Greek: παρακμιακό (el) n. (parakmiako)

Italian: decadenza (it) f. Lithuanian: núosmukis (lt) m. Portuguese: decadência (pt) f. Ukrainian: декаданс (uk) (dekadáns) m.

External links

• decadence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• decadence in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911