decadents
Indulgent aesthetic devotees
Decadents are people given to self-indulgent excess, particularly those who embrace moral or cultural decline as an aesthetic stance.
The term often refers to late 19th-century artists and writers who rejected bourgeois values in favor of sensory pleasure and artifice: The decadents of fin-de-siècle Paris scandalized respectable society.
More loosely, decadents are anyone pursuing luxury or pleasure to excess.
French decadent poet
- WildeAnglo-Irish family name
- PaterFather, in Latin
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- aestheticismValuing beauty above ethics
fin-de-siècle · ennui · artifice · morbidity · transgression · perversity · dandyism · world-weariness
Showy, abundant prosperity
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- sumptuousnessExtreme costly elegance
- splendorImpressive, striking beauty
champagne · caviar · silk · velvet · gilded · fin-de-siècle · aristocracy · salons
Rejects prevailing social standards
- eccentricUnconventional in character
- artistMaker of creative works
- rebelAuthority defier
- unconventionalDeparting from standard practice
avant-garde · counter-culture · outsider · individualist · transgressive · provocateur · radical · dandy
Happy, satisfied feeling
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- excessSurplus beyond need
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
libertinism · dissipation · profligacy · revelry · self-indulgence · voluptuousness · sybaritism · carnality
Progressive loss of function
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- downfallSudden loss of power
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
decaying · waning · crumbling · twilight · fall · collapse · enfeeblement · degradation
Baudelaire
French decadent poet
aestheticism · fin-de-siècle · ennui · artifice · morbidity · transgression · perversity · dandyism · world-weariness · languor
opulence
Showy, abundant prosperity
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- sumptuousnessExtreme costly elegance
splendor · champagne · caviar · silk · velvet · gilded · fin-de-siècle · aristocracy · salons · absinthe
nonconformist
Rejects prevailing social standards
unconventional · avant-garde · counter-culture · outsider · individualist · transgressive · provocateur · radical · dandy · aesthete
pleasure
Happy, satisfied feeling
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- excessSurplus beyond need
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
sensuality · libertinism · dissipation · profligacy · revelry · self-indulgence · voluptuousness · sybaritism · carnality · gratification
degeneration
Progressive loss of function
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- downfallSudden loss of power
dissolution · decaying · waning · crumbling · twilight · fall · collapse · enfeeblement · degradation · disintegration
- pleasure seekershedonist, hedonists, pleasure seeker, pleasure seekers, pleasure-seeker
decadentsascetics
People practicing severe self-discipline
abstainers · monastics · stoics · renunciants · teetotalers
decadentsnaturalists
Students of wildlife
realists · moralists · utilitarians · primitives · classicists
- Roman decadenceAncient empire's corrupt luxury