Associations to the word «Decadent»

Wiktionary

DECADENT, adjective. Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
DECADENT, adjective. Luxuriously self-indulgent.
DECADENT, noun. A person affected by moral decay.

Dictionary definition

DECADENT, noun. A person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically).
DECADENT, adjective. Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin