decadentismn.
/ˈdɛkədəntɪz(ə)m/ The distinctive qualities or spirit of the decadent school in art, literature, and music; decadent behaviour or characteristics.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun]
degeneration?1481
declining1526
declination1533
depravation1561
villainy1564
declension1597
depravedness1623
decadency1632
degenerateness1640
depravity1643
depravement1645
degradation1663
degeneracy1664
degenerousness1678
marasmus1681
debasednessa1720
decadencea1734
demoralization1797
downgrade1857
decadentism1949
1886 Athenæum 24 July 117/1 I shall speak to you some other time about the décadents and the décadentisme, a malady of the hour.]
1895 Westm. Gaz. 27 May 2/1 The ego-mania of decadentism, its love of the artificial..and its exaggeration of the importance of art, have found their English representative among the Æsthetes.
1949 Mind 58 114 Existentialism is the philosophy of decadentism.
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