findesiècleの英語

語源

Borrowed from French fin-de-siècle (字義どおりに “end of the century”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌfæ̃ də ˈsjɛ.klə/, /ˌfæn də ˈsjɛ.klə/

形容詞

fin de siècle (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the close of the 19th century, usually suggesting a literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence.
   • 1990, Mikulas Teich, Roy Porter, Fin de Siècle and Its Legacy, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 3:

     The fin-de-siècle phenomenon has, of course, received considerable attention from historians in the recent past—a testament to its appeal. […] They also tend to concentrate on individual as well as social alienation as particularly characteristic of the fin-de-siècle feeling.

2. (by extension) Pertaining to the close of the 20th (または any other) century.
   • 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Eat Your Parents”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, OCLC 22510632:

     And, Dag, have you ever noticed that your bungalow looks more like it belongs to a pair of Eisenhower era Allentown, Pennsylvania newlyweds than it does to a fin de siècle existentialist poseur?

名詞

fin de siècle (複数形 fins de siècle)

1. The end of an era.
   • 2020 June 24, Tom McTague, “The Decline of the American World”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     From these conversations, most of which took place on the condition of anonymity to speak freely, a picture emerged in which America's closest allies are looking on with a kind of stunned incomprehension, unsure of what will happen, what it means, and what they should do, largely bound together with angst and a shared sense, as one influential adviser told me, that America and the West are approaching something of a fin de siècle.