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Decadent vs Opulence - What's the difference?

decadent | opulence |

As nouns the difference between decadent and opulence

is that decadent is a person affected by moral decay while opulence is wealth.

As an adjective decadent

is characterized by moral or cultural decline.

decadent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
  • * - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
    • As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
  • Luxuriously self-indulgent.
  • * "
    • Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent ! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person affected by moral decay.

    • Related terms

    * decadence * decay

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    opulence

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • wealth
  • abundance, bounty, profusion

    • Quotations

    * 1721 , (John Gay), A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Gold?mith, near Temple-Bar; Occa?ion’d by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Sub?criptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thou?and per Cent'', published in 1733 in ''Miscellanies , volume 3, page 239: *: There in full Opulence a Banker dwelt,
    Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
    His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
    And his proud Fancy held a va?t E?tate. * C. J. Fox: *: The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence .

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