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Adjective: fin-de-siecle
  1. Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
    - decadent, fin-de-siècle
     
  2. Relating to or characteristic of the end of a century (especially the end of the 19th century)
    - fin de siècle, fin-de-siècle
Noun: fin de siècle  ,faÑ-du-see'e-kl(u)
  1. The end of a century, especially the 19th century
    "Fin de siècle however expresses apocalyptic sense of end of a phase of civilization"

See also: finished, immoral

Type of: end, ending

Encyclopedia: Fin-de-siecle

Fin de siècle