- 1頹廢；耽溺享樂（說甜點時則是半開玩笑的「奢華到過分」）
Decadence is a way of living — or a mood in a whole society — that other people judge as going downhill: too much pleasure, too little duty, low moral standards. The picture is of people who care more about wine, money, sex, and pretty things than about work, kindness, or the future. Historians use it for empires they think grew soft before they fell. Though actually, in ordinary talk today the moral finger-wagging is often lighter: a cake, a hotel, a bath can be called 'pure decadence', and that is a compliment — it means enjoyable, almost too much. The heavy meaning is still there in essays and news; the food-and-luxury meaning is the one advertising loves.
組成From French décadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia ('decay'), from a form meaning 'decaying', the present participle of decadere ('to decay'). Behind that is the idea of falling down or away; see decay.
同家族的字
- decaysame Latin idea of falling / going downhill; decadence is moral or cultural decay
- decadentthe adjective (and sometimes noun) from the same family
- decadentlythe adverb
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
decadencenoun/ˈdɛkədəns/
- 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."
- 2
The quality of being luxuriously self-indulgent.
- the decadence of a five-star hotel
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