释义 |
decadencedec‧a‧dence /ˈdekədəns/ noun [uncountable]  decadenceOrigin: 1700-1800 French décadence, from Latin decadere ‘to fall, sink’ - Female illiteracy, even in the well-off classes, is one of the characteristics of the decadence that led to colonization.
- It's full of blasphemy and decadence.
- It encourages a cynical, destructive decadence.
- Our age is not an age of decadence.
- There is another dimension to the decadence of Britain and the Western world.
behaviour that shows that someone has low moral standards and is more concerned with pleasure than serious matters |