different between decadence vs decadent

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): /?d?k?d?ns/

Noun

decadence (countable and uncountable, plural decadences)

1. A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay

Related terms

• deciduous

Translations

Further reading

• decadence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• decadence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• décadent

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?k?d?nt/

Adjective

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.
   • 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!

Synonyms

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

Translations

Noun

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.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• decanted

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin decadens.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /d?.k??dent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /d?.k??den/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /de.ka?dent/

Adjective

decadent (masculine and feminine plural decadents)

1. decadent

Related terms

• decadència
• decaure

Further reading

• “decadent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “decadent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “decadent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “decadent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Romanian

Etymology

From French décadent

Adjective

decadent m or n (feminine singular decadent?, masculine plural decaden?i, feminine and neuter plural decadente)

1. decadent

Declension