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Back-formation from decadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia, from Late Latin decadens (“‘decadens’”), present participle of Late Latin decado (“‘sink, fall’”). Cognate with French décadent

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• IPA: /ˈdɛkədənt/, SAMPA: /"dEk@d@nt/

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1. Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
   • Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)

     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.
   • 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!

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1. A person affected by moral decat

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• decadence
• decay

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• decanted

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