世せい紀き末まつ

noun

end of a century; fin-de-siècle

Often refers specifically to the end of the 19th century and its associated cultural mood of decadence and anxiety. Can be used for any century's end.

• 19世せい紀き末まつのパリは芸げい術じゅつの中ちゅう心しん地ちだった。

  Paris at the end of the 19th century was a center of art.

• 世せい紀き末まつ的てきな退たい廃はいの雰ふん囲い気きが漂ただよう小しょう説せつだ。

  It's a novel with a fin-de-siècle atmosphere of decadence.

noun

end of the world; apocalypse

Used especially in fiction, games, and speculative contexts to describe a world-ending scenario or apocalyptic setting.

• そのゲームは世せい紀き末まつの荒こう廃はいした世せ界かいを舞ぶ台たいにしている。

  That game is set in a devastated, apocalyptic world.

• 世せい紀き末まつ的てきな終しゅう末まつ思し想そうが流りゅう行こうした時じ期きもあった。

  There was a time when apocalyptic end-of-the-world ideas were popular.