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Decadence is behavior that shows a love of self-indulgence, pleasure and money, or the process of decline or decay in society's ethical and moral traditions. (noun)

An example of decadence is a dessert bar with hundreds of choices of chocolate desserts.
An example of decadence is the Decadent movement in the late 19th century when artists and writers such as Oscar Wilde moved away from the Romantic ethical view to a more dishonest behavior reflecting a decline in moral behavior.

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