English-Thai Dictionary

decadence

N ความเสื่อมโทรม  ภาวะ เสื่อมโทรม  การ เสื่อม ลง  ความตกต่ำ  ความเสื่อม  การ เลว ลง  decay decline degeneracy deterioration immorality kwam-sueam-som

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DECADENCE, DECADENCY

n.Decay.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DECADENCE; DECADENCY

De *ca "dence, De *ca "den *cy, n. Etym: [LL. decadentia; L. de- + cadere to fall: cf. F. décadence. See Decay. ]

 

Defn: A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence. ' Sir W. Scott.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

decadence

dec a dence |ˈdekədəns ˈdɛkəd (ə )ns | ▶noun moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury: he denounced Western decadence. • luxurious self-indulgence: “French ” connotes richness and decadence, and that's the idea of this ice cream. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French décadence, from medieval Latin decadentia; related to decay .

 

Oxford Dictionary

decadence

decadence |ˈdɛkəd (ə )ns | ▶noun [ mass noun ] moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury: he denounced Western decadence. • luxurious self-indulgence: cream cakes on a Wednesday —pure decadence. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French décadence, from medieval Latin decadentia; related to decay .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

decadence

decadence noun 1 the decadence of modern society: dissipation, degeneracy, debauchery, corruption, depravity, vice, sin, moral decay, immorality; immoderateness, intemperance, licentiousness, self-indulgence, hedonism. ANTONYMS morality. 2 the decadence of nations: deterioration, fall, decay, degeneration, decline, degradation, retrogression. ANTONYMS rise.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

decadence

decadence noun he attacked the decadence of modern society: dissipation, dissoluteness, degeneracy, debauchery, corruption, depravity, loucheness, vice, sinfulness, perversion, moral decay, immorality, lack of morals, lack of principles, lack of restraint, lack of control, lack of self-control, immoderateness, intemperance, licentiousness, wantonness, self-indulgence, hedonism, epicureanism; rare sybaritism, voluptuousness. ANTONYMS morality.

 

French Dictionary

décadence

décadence n. f. nom féminin Déclin, commencement de la ruine. : La décadence des Romains.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

decadence

dec a dence /dékəd (ə )ns /名詞 U (人 社会 道徳などの )衰退, 堕落 .