Immiseration
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Immiseration is a noun meaning Synonym of immiserization (“the process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization”).
Meaning
Synonym of immiserization (“the process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization”).
Example Sentences
Unimaginable amounts of suffering have been caused by tyrants who callously presided over the immiseration of their peoples or launched destructive wars of conquest.
Even Thomas More, the most populist of the sixteenth-century humanists striving to overcome the immiserations of serfdom, did not question slavery but endorsed it, as did, of course, the U.S. government as late as 1861.
Word Forms
- immiserations
Synonyms for immiseration
Depending on context, synonyms include immiserization.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include immiserization, imbecilification, impuration, inferiorization, imbrutement, misimprovement.
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