Decline
Decline is a change over time from previously efficient to inefficient organizational functioning, from previously rational to non-rational organizational and individual decision-making, from previously law-abiding to law violating organizational and individual behavior, from previously virtuous to iniquitous individual moral behavior. Note: The word decline should not be confused with the word obsolete. Decline refers to the degenerating of something whereas obsolete refers to the outdating of something or that it is no longer in use. It is the process of declining, a gradual sinking and wasting away.
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... The decline of the Maurya Dynasty was rather rapid after the death of Ashoka/Asoka ... Regarding the decline much has been written ... the view that brahminical reaction was responsible for the decline because of the following reasons ...
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... Few recent commercial adventure games have been hits in the US but they are still very popular in Europe (95% of all adventures released in US are in fact translated European products) ... It has been suggested that this is because the "average" gamer today was weaned on console video games and first person shooters rather than the "traditional" computer games cherished by the original crop of adventure gaming enthusiasts ...
More definitions of "decline":
- (verb): Show unwillingness towards.
Synonyms: refuse
- (verb): Go down.
Example: "The roof declines here"
- (noun): A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current.
Synonyms: decay
- (noun): A condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state.
Synonyms: declination
- (verb): .
Example: "Inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"
- (verb): Grow worse.
Synonyms: worsen
- (noun): A downward slope or bend.
Synonyms: descent, declivity, fall, declination, declension, downslope
Famous quotes containing the word decline:
“I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“Considered physiologically, everything ugly weakens and saddens man. It reminds him of decay, danger, impotence; it actually reduces his strength. The effect of ugliness can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever anyone feels depressed, he senses the proximity of something “ugly.” His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride—they decline with ugliness, they rise with beauty.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)