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Definition of Decadency
1. Noun. The state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities.
Generic synonyms: Abasement, Abjection, Degradation
Derivative terms: Decadent, Decadent, Degenerate
Definition of Decadency
1. Noun. decadence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decadency
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decadency
Literary usage of Decadency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob, James Dafforne (1870)
"decadency.—Civil and Military Architecture: Castles, Fortified Enclosures, Private
Houses, Town-Halls.—Italian Renaissance: Pisa, Florence, Rome. ..."
2. Annual Register (1805)
"T 1IE introduction and improvement of the arts and sciences in an empire, do not
occasion' its decadency; but the same causes that accelerate the progress ..."
3. English Synonyms Discriminated by William Taylor (1856)
"decadency, though authorized by Johnson, is seldom employed ; but it may be
distinguished ... The decay of cheese, not the decadency. Of a cadaverous man, ..."
4. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Karl Rokitansky (1854)
"Other processes of cure present, however, greater interest, bearing the character
of an involution, a decadency of the cancer. Such are: 1. ..."
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