fin-de-siècle

Examples

• All

• The city's fin-de-siècle strutting does have a shameless streak.

  Academic text (2008)

• The fact that the Viennese—indeed, Austrian—identity is so interwoven with the fin-de-siècle epoch has more than aesthetic implications.

  Academic text (2008)

• The fin-de-siècle fixation is, to be sure, played up for tourists.

  Academic text (2008)

• Same slather, all black and rich and opulent in this fin-de-siècle way.

  Fiction book (1995)

• "Fin-de-siècle Vienna was infatuated with contemporary artists, not former generations of creative pioneers.

  Academic text (2008)

• What greater fortune could befall an American intellectual in this decadent fin de siècle?

  Academic text (1991)

• Emerge from the subway, and in all likelihood, the sign announcing your stop will be the handiwork of fin-de-siècle architect Otto Wagner.

  Academic text (2008)

• The sense of contemporaneity is largely an illusion; the derangements of the last fin-de-siècle are quite different from those of this, and so also are our ways of coping.

  Academic text (1999)

• Munch's iconography reflects the contemporary fin-de-siècle version of the ideology of "Woman" as man's unknowable and erotic opposite.

  Academic text (2000)

• The artwork at the gallery captures the essence of a fin-de-siècle mindset, reflecting both beauty and decay.

Synonyms

T

turn of the century

vsfin-de-siècle

37 3.9

A period of years around the start of a new century, about ten years before and after

focuses on the later part of a century with decadent cultural change

F

fin de siècle

vsfin-de-siècle

• Literature

1 9.9

A period at the end of a century, especially the late 1800s, with a mood of decline

is identical in meaning but written with hyphens and accents

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Etymology