fin de siècle
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See also: fin-de-siecle and fin-de-siècle
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French fin-de-siècle (literally “end of the century”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌfæn də siˈɛklə/, /-siˈɛkəl/, /-ˈsjɛklə/, /-ˈsjɛkəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
[edit]fin de siècle (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the close of the 19th century, usually suggesting a literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence.
- 1990, Mikulas Teich, Roy Porter, Fin de Siècle and Its Legacy, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
- The fin-de-siècle phenomenon has, of course, received considerable attention from historians in the recent past—a testament to its appeal. […] They also tend to concentrate on individual as well as social alienation as particularly characteristic of the fin-de-siècle feeling.
- (by extension) Pertaining to the close of the 20th (or any other) century.
- 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Eat Your Parents”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC:
- And, Dag, have you ever noticed that your bungalow looks more like it belongs to a pair of Eisenhower era Allentown, Pennsylvania newlyweds than it does to a fin de siècle existentialist poseur?
Noun
[edit]fin de siècle (plural fins de siècle)
- The end of an era.
- 2020 June 24, Tom McTague, “The Decline of the American World”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- From these conversations, most of which took place on the condition of anonymity to speak freely, a picture emerged in which America's closest allies are looking on with a kind of stunned incomprehension, unsure of what will happen, what it means, and what they should do, largely bound together with angst and a shared sense, as one influential adviser told me, that America and the West are approaching something of a fin de siècle.
Further reading
[edit]fin de siècle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French fin-de-siècle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fin de siècle m inan
- (art, historical, literature) fin de siècle (literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence)
Declension
[edit]Declension of fin de siècle
singular | |
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nominative | fin de siècle |
genitive | fin de siècle'u |
dative | fin de siècle'owi |
accusative | fin de siècle |
instrumental | fin de siècle'em |
locative | fin de siècle'u |
vocative | fin de siècle'u |
Derived terms
[edit]adjective
nouns
Further reading
[edit]- fin de siècle in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- fin de siècle in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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