fin-de-siecle

Speech parts

1. fin-de-siecle - Adjective

2. fin-de-siecle - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay

relating to or characteristic of the end of a century (especially the end of the 19th century)

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Examples

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle. Eric Hobsbawm

Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists. J. G. Ballard

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds. Robert Hughes

a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility Source: Internet

a group of effete self-professed intellectuals Source: Internet

fin de siecle art Source: Internet

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