immiseration

Pronunciation: /ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/

The English word “immiseration” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

Synonym of immiserization (“the process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization”).

Etymology

From im- (prefix meaning ‘in; into; to; towards’) + miser(able) + -ation (suffix denoting actions or processes, or their results), a variant of immiserization.

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