decadence

See also: décadence

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkədəns/
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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

decadent
deciduous

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱh₂d-‎ (0 c, 30 e)

Translations

state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration

Arabic: اضمحلال‎ m (iḍmiḥlāl)
Armenian: անկումայնություն (hy) (ankumaynutʿyun), 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), 衰落 (zh) (shuāiluò)
Cornish: legryas m
Czech: dekadence 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)
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
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
Ukrainian: декада́нс m (dekadáns), декаде́нтство n (dekadéntstvo), занепа́дництво n (zanepádnyctvo)