- the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay: Some historians hold that the fall of Rome can be attributed to internal decadence.
- moral degeneration or decay; turpitude.
- unrestrained or excessive self-indulgence.
- the decadent movement in literature.
- deterioration, esp of morality or culture; decay; degeneration
- the state reached through such a process
