すいたい
Suitai
Other forms: 衰頽
衰退 (Suitai) is a Japanese noun meaning “decline, degeneration, decay, waning”.
Meanings
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbdecline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing
Examples
二大文明はゆっくりと衰退した。
Two great civilizations slowly fell into decay.
そいつは衰退のレトリックというものだ。
But it's the rhetoric of failure.
その衰退はざっと１９５０年代までさかのぼる事が出来る。
The decline can be traced to the 1950s.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).