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Meaning of fin de siècle

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

fin de siècle

Pronunciation:/ˌfæn də ˈsjɛ.klə/

noun

Definitions

  1. The end of an era.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to the close of the 19th century, usually suggesting a literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence.

  2. (by extension) Pertaining to the close of the 20th (or any other) century.