decadent
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Definition of decadent
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
“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.”
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adj
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Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
“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.”
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Luxuriously self-indulgent.
“2003, 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!”
noun
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A person affected by moral decay.
“L. Douglas He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.”
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Etymology
From French décadent, a back-formation from décadence (see -ent), from Medieval Latin dēcadentia, from Late Latin dēcadēns, present participle of dēcadō, dēcidō (“sink, fall; perish”), from Latin dē- + cadō (“fall”).
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