Mistaking cadenza with decadence would be a great mistake.
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Decadence
Synonyms for "decadence" (72 found)
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6 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- اضمحلال noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Armenian
2 entries- անկում noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- անկումայնություն noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Bulgarian
2 entries- декаде́нтство noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- упа́дък noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Catalan
1 entries- decadència noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 墮落 /堕落 noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- 腐朽 noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- 頹廢 /颓废 noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Cornish
1 entries- legryas noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Czech
2 entries- dekadence noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- úpadek noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Danish
2 entries- dekadence noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- forfald noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Esperanto
1 entries- dekadenco noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Finnish
2 entries- dekadenssi noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- moraalinen mädännäisyys noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
French
2 entries- décadence noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- décadentisme noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Georgian
4 entries- დაკნინება noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- დაქვეითება noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- დაცემა noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- დეკადენტობა noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
German
1 entries- Dekadenz noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Greek
2 entries- κατάπτωση noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- κραιπάλη noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Hindi
4 entries- क्षयिष्णुता noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- गिरावट noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- पतन noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- ह्रास noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Hungarian
1 entries- hanyatlás noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Irish
1 entries- meath noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Italian
2 entries- decadentismo noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- decadenza noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Japanese
2 entries- デカダンス noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- 退廃 noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Kazakh
2 entries- декаденттік noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- декадентшілдік noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Korean
2 entries- 데카당스 noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- 퇴폐 noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Lithuanian
1 entries- núosmukis noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Macedonian
2 entries- декаде́нција noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- пропа́ѓање noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- dekadanse noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- dekadanse noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Portuguese
1 entries- decadência noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Romanian
1 entries- decadență noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Russian
4 entries- декада́нс noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- декаде́нтство noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- упа́дничество noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- упа́док noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- dekadansa noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- dekadencija noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- propadanje noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Slovene
1 entries- dekadenca noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Spanish
1 entries- decadencia noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Swedish
2 entries- dekadans noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- förfall noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Thai
1 entries- ความเสื่อมโทรม noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
Ukrainian
3 entries- декада́нс noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- декаде́нтство noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
- занепа́дництво noun (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)
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Modern dances? It's not dancing anymore, it's decadence.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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It's great that you like to be good, to grow, to evolve; however, doing it at the cost of others or undervaluing his or her work is unforgivable. Who commits it is, in fact, in decadence rather than ascension.
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