decadence

With a negative connotation: the process of declining from a state of moral virtue, prosperity, etc., to a worse state; decay, deterioration; also, the bad state which has been reached; (countable) an instance of this.uncountable

• This Gentleman hath ever ſince, upon all Occaſions, continually expreſſed his grateful Acknovvledgements for all this noble Patronage, vvithout vvhich he had ſuffer'd large Decadences both of Mind and Body.
• But it is novv thought even by the Engliſh themſelves that the race of their poets is extinct, every day produces ſome pathetic exclamation upon the decadence of taſte and genius.

With a negative connotation: the process of declining from a state of moral virtue, prosperity, etc., to a worse state; decay, deterioration; also, the bad state which has been reached; (countable) an instance of this.; An age or period of time when art, literature, etc., is regarded as having declined.uncountable

• In no description of this chapel have I ever seen the names and subjects accurately given: the style of art belongs to the decadence, and the taste being worse than questionable, the pervading doctrinal idea has been neglected, or never und

With a positive connotation: the quality of being luxuriously enjoyable or self-indulgent, especially of food; luxuriousness, richness.uncountable

• the decadence of a five-star hotel

The process or state of falling down or falling off.archaicuncountable

• I fell to the ground in the dirtiest soil that could be selected by a man in a state of decadence.