decadence
nounUK /ˈdɛkədəns/
Etymology From French décadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia (“decay”), from *decadens (“decaying”), present participle of *decadere (“to decay”); see decay.
1
A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
- "Stability, however, is not enough. It leads too easily to stagnation, and thence to decadence."1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 35:
2
The quality of being luxuriously self-indulgent.
- the decadence of a five-star hotel