Decadence vs Debase - What's the difference?
decadence | debase |
A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 35
To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
(archaic) To lower in position or rank.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
As a noun decadence
is decadence.As a verb debase is
to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.decadence
English
(wikipedia decadence)Noun
- "Stability, however, is not enough. It leads too easily to stagnation, and thence to decadence ."
