decadent
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Back-formation from decadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia, from Late Latin decadens (“decadens”), present participle of Late Latin decado (“sink, fall”). Cognate with French décadent
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
decadent (comparative more decadent, superlative most decadent)
- Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
- Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
- Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
- Luxuriously self-indulgent.
- Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
- Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!
- Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
Translations [edit]
Characterized by moral or cultural decline
Noun [edit]
decadent (plural decadents)
- A person affected by moral decay.
Translations [edit]
person affected by moral decay
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