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Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Decadence is a luxurious self-indulgence. It is often used to describe a decline due to an erosion of moral, ethical, or sexual traditions.
Decadence was the name given to a number of late nineteenth-century writers who valued artifice over the earlier Romantics' naÃ¯ve view of nature. Some of them triumphantly adopted the name, referring to themselves as Decadents. For the most part, they were influenced by the tradition of the Gothic novel and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, and were associated with Symbolism and/or Aestheticism.