Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
decadence. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
decadence, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
decadence in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
decadence you have here. The definition of the word
decadence will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
decadence, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From French décadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia (“decay”), from *decadens (“decaying”), present participle of *decadere (“to decay”); see decay.
Pronunciation
Noun
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, page 35:"Stability, however, is not enough. It leads too easily to stagnation, and thence to decadence."
- The quality of being luxuriously self-indulgent.
- the decadence of a five-star hotel
Related terms
Translations
state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration
- Arabic: اضمحلال m (iḍmiḥlāl)
- Armenian: անկումայնություն (hy) (ankumaynutʻyun), անկում (hy) (ankum)
- Bulgarian: упа́дък (bg) m (upádǎk), декаде́нтство n (dekadéntstvo)
- Catalan: decadència (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 腐朽 (zh) (fǔxiǔ), 墮落／堕落 (zh) (duòluò), 頹廢／颓废 (zh) (tuífèi)
- Cornish: legryas m
- Czech: dekadence (cs) f, úpadek (cs)
- Danish: dekadence c, forfald (da) n
- Finnish: dekadenssi (fi), moraalinen mädännäisyys
- French: décadence (fr) f, décadentisme (fr) m
- Georgian: დაკნინება (daḳnineba), დაქვეითება (dakveiteba), დაცემა (dacema), დეკადენტობა (deḳadenṭoba)
- German: Dekadenz (de) f
- Greek: κραιπάλη (el) f (kraipáli), κατάπτωση (el) f (katáptosi)
- Hindi: पतन (hi) (patan), ह्रास (hi) (hrās), ह्रासोन्मुखता (hrāsonmukhtā), क्षयिष्णुता (kṣayiṣṇutā), गिरावट (hi) (girāvaṭ)
- Hungarian: hanyatlás (hu)
- Irish: meath m
- Italian: decadenza (it) f, decadentismo (it) m
- Japanese: デカダンス (dekadansu), 退廃 (ja) (たいはい, taihai)
- Kazakh: декаденттік (dekadenttık), декадентшілдік (dekadentşıldık)
- Korean: 데카당스 (ko) (dekadangseu), 퇴폐(頹廢) (ko) (toepye)
- Lithuanian: núosmukis m
- Macedonian: пропа́ѓање n (propáǵanje), декаде́нција f (dekadéncija)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dekadanse m
- Nynorsk: dekadanse m
- Portuguese: decadência (pt) f
- Romanian: decadență (ro) f
- Russian: декада́нс (ru) m (dɛkadáns), декаде́нтство (ru) n (dɛkadéntstvo), упа́дочничество (ru) n (upádočničestvo), упа́док (ru) m (upádok), упа́дничество (ru) n (upádničestvo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: dekadencija (sh) f, dekadansa (sh) f, propadanje n
- Slovene: dekadenca f
- Spanish: decadencia (es) f
- Swedish: dekadans (sv) c, förfall (sv) n
- Thai: ความเสื่อมโทรม (th) (kwaam-sʉ̀ʉam-soom)
- Ukrainian: декада́нс m (dekadáns), декаде́нтство n (dekadéntstvo), занепа́дництво n (zanepádnyctvo)
|
Further reading
- “decadence”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “decadence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “decadence”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
