decadence• It's full of blasphemy and decadence.• It encourages a cynical, destructivedecadence.• Our age is not an age of decadence.• Female illiteracy, even in the well-off classes, is one of the characteristics of the decadence that led to colonization.• There is another dimension to the decadence of Britain and the Western world.
Origindecadence
(1700-1800)Frenchdécadence, from Latindecadere“to fall, sink”