Question 1

What is the etymology of thr French word "décadentisme"?

Accepted Answer

From 'decadent' with the suffix '-ism'. It was Verlaine who gave this meaning to the term in his sonnet 'Langueur' published in the Parisian weekly 'Le Chat Noir' on May 26, 1883, 'I am the empire at the end of the decadence.'

Question 2

What is the plural of the French word "décadentisme"?

Accepted Answer

décadentismes

Question 3

What does "décadentisme" mean in French?

Accepted Answer

An artistic, mainly literary movement inspired by French Symbolism and German anti-positivist philosophies of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer that spread in Europe between the late 19th and early 20th centuries; it is characterized by a taste for the irrational, mystery, symbolist correspondences (analogies), perversion, death, beauty, and elegant periods of decadence, as well as a rejection of science, reason, bourgeois morality, and normality.

Question 4

How do you translate "décadentisme" into italian?

Accepted Answer

decadentismo

décadentisme

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