Fin de Siecle

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Culture

Foundational Lexiconend of era
Executive Parlancecentury's end
Scholarly Discoursedecadent twilight
Babel ZenithFin de Siècle
Origin: French
Pronunciation: /fæ̃ də sjɛkl/

Etymology & Meaning

End of the century; cultural exhaustion and decadence.

In the Boardroom

The sense that an era is ending and something new coming.

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