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Disolute vs Decadent - What's the difference?

disolute | decadent |

Disolute is likely misspelled.


Disolute has no English definition.

As an adjective decadent is

characterized by moral or cultural decline.

As a noun decadent is

a person affected by moral decay.

disolute

Not English

Disolute has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

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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