Decadent

//ˈdɛkədənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 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!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    luxuriously self-indulgent wordnet
  2. 2
    marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A person affected by moral decay.

    "L. Douglas He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent."

  2. 2
    a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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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