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decadent

See also: décadent

English

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Etymology

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From French décadent, back-formation from décadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia, from Late Latin decadens, present participle of decadō (“sink, fall”). Cognate with French décadent.

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decadent (comparative more decadent, superlative most decadent)

  1. Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
    • 1992, Gore Vidal, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire:
      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.
  2. Luxuriously self-indulgent.

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  • (luxuriously self-indulgent): sinful (colloquial)

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Noun

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decadent (plural decadents)

  1. 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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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱh₂d-‎ (0 c, 32 e)

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Catalan

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Borrowed from Late Latin dēcadentem.

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decadent m or f (masculine and feminine plural decadents)

  1. decaying, deteriorating, in decline
  2. decadent (characterized by moral or cultural decline)
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French décadent.

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decadent m or n (feminine singular decadentă, masculine plural decadenți, feminine and neuter plural decadente)

  1. decadent

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Declension of decadent
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite decadent decadentă decadenți decadente
definite decadentul decadenta decadenții decadentele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite decadent decadente decadenți decadente
definite decadentului decadentei decadenților decadentelor
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