immiseration

noun
/ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/UK/ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃən/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from miserabilis
  2. borrowed from miserable
  3. formed as immiseration — “in- + miserable + -ation

Definitions

  1. Synonym of immiserization (“the process of making miserable or poor, especially of a…

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

    • 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.
    • Unimaginable amounts of suffering have been caused by tyrants who callously presided over the immiseration of their peoples or launched destructive wars of conquest.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA