Pronunciation: ˌ fan-d ə -s ē - ' e-k ə l; fa n -d ə - ' syekl ə
Function: adjective
Etymology: French, end of the century
Date: 1890
1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the close of the 19th century and especially its literary and artistic climate of sophistication, world-weariness, and fashionable despair
2 : of or relating to the end of a century
– fin de siècle noun