fin de siècle

Meanings

Adjective

  • Pertaining to the close of the 19th century, usually suggesting a literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence.
  • Pertaining to the close of the 20th (or any other) century.

Noun

  • The end of an era.

Origin

  • Borrowed from French fin-de-siècle.

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