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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.
By the 1890s, another term had become associated with this focus on âart for artâs sakeâ. It has origins in common with aestheticism and the two terms often overlap and were sometimes used interchangeably. âDecadenceâ was initially used to describe writers of the mid-19th century in France, especially Baudelaire and Gautier. By the centuryâs end, decadence was in use as an aesthetic term across Europe.