Decadence

Noun

 * 1) A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
 * 2) * 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

Adjectives for Decadence
pale; sentimental; brilliant; passionate; pathetic; fragrant; vegetating; mouldy.

Verbs for Decadence
abandon to—; arouse from—; awake from—; crumble into—; fall into—; incur—; lapse into—; prevent—; produce—; resist -; result in—; rise out of—; slide into—; steep in—; suffer—; threaten with—; — approaches; —beckons; —girdles; —sleeps in.

Thesaurus
abandon, abandonment, abjection, comedown, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadency, decadent, decayed, declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy, degenerate, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depravity, depreciation, derogation, descent, deterioration, devolution, dissoluteness, downfall, downgrade, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, involution, lapse, loss of tone, moral pollution, moral turpitude, overripe, profligacy, regress, regression, reprobacy, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, rottenness, slippage, slump, turpitude, wane

Translations

 * Armenian: անկումայնություն,
 * Bulgarian: упадък, декадентство
 * Croatian: dekadencija, dekadansa , propadanje
 * Finnish:, moraalinen mädännäisyys


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 * Ukrainian: декаданс