décadentisme
French, noun/de.ka.dɑ̃.tism/
décadentisme is spelled D-É-C-A-D-E-N-T-I-S-M-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written French, the 253,038th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décadentisme is a French masculine noun meaning “decadentism, decadent movement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Courant artistique, principalement littéraire, inspiré du symbolisme français et des philosophies…”.
What does décadentisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedecadentism, decadent movement
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Courant artistique, principalement littéraire, inspiré du symbolisme français et des philosophies antipositivistes allemandes de Nietzsche et Schopenhauer qui se diffusa en Europe entre la fin du XIXᵉ siècle et le début du XXᵉ siècle ; il se caractérise par un goût pour l’irrationnel, le mystère, les correspondances (au sens d’analogies symbolistes), la perversion, la mort, le beau, les époques de
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of décadentisme
- décadentismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce décadentisme?
- /de.ka.dɑ̃.tism/
- /de.ka.dɑ̃.tizm/
- \de.ka.dɑ̃.tism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to décadentisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is décadentisme in French?
décadentisme appears about once in every 65 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).