From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Decadence \De*ca"dence\, Decadency \De*ca"den*cy\, noun [LL. decadentia; L. de- + cadere to fall: cf. F. d['e]cadence. See {Decay}.] A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. ''The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence.'' --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities [syn: {degeneracy}, {degeneration}, {decadency}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "decadence": abandon, abandonment, abjection, comedown, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadency, decadent, decayed, declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy, degenerate, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depravity, depreciation, derogation, descent, deterioration, devolution, dissoluteness, downfall, downgrade, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, involution, lapse, loss of tone, moral pollution, moral turpitude, overripe, profligacy, regress, regression, reprobacy, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, rottenness, slippage, slump, turpitude, wane
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