Definition von decadents im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
Group of poets of the end of the 19th century, including some French Symbolists (see Symbolist movement), notably Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine, and the later generation of England's Aesthetic movement (see Aestheticism), notably Arthur Symons and Oscar Wilde. Many nonpoets, including the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans and the artist Aubrey Beardsley, are also often associated with the Decadents. The Decadents emphasized art for art's sake (see Walter Pater), seeing it as autonomous and opposed to nature and to the materialistic preoccupations of industrialized society, and therefore stressed the bizarre, incongruous, and artificial in both their work and their lives
marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
disapproval If you say that a person or society is decadent, you think that they have low moral standards and are interested mainly in pleasure. the excesses and stresses of their decadent rock 'n' roll lifestyles. + decadence deca·dence The empire had for years been falling into decadence. having low moral standards and being more concerned with pleasure than serious matters
a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals