Definition of "decadency" []

• Decadence. (noun)

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• "These are not just paintings of big food, they are portraits of gargantuan decadency."
• "Capitalism and democracy seem to be suffering from a strong crisis of identity, of declining importance and decadency."
• "Faced with rising neopaganism, the decadency of customs in Rome and Florence, it was enough to ask that people follow the Gospel to be branded as severe censors."