impoverishments
States of destitution
Impoverishments are acts or processes of making poor or depleted.
The word applies to financial ruin but extends to any diminishment of resources or quality: the impoverishments of war, cultural impoverishments caused by censorship.
Each instance represents a separate depleting force or event.
States of lacking necessities
- bankruptciesLegal declarations of insolvency
- ruinationsActs causing total collapse
- impecuniousnessLack of funds
- penuryExtreme lack of money
indigence · hardships · privations · scarcity · want · neediness · dispossession · disinheritance
Absence of substance
- hollownessState of being empty inside
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
- vacuityUtter emptiness or blankness
- shallownessLack of depth
soullessness · meaninglessness · alienation · disconnection · estrangement · anomie · desolation · aridity
States of utter weariness
- diminishmentsActs of making smaller
- degradationsDeclines in condition
- depletionsActs of using up
- erosionsGradual wearing processes
drainings · reductions · deteriorations · declines · debilitations · weakening · resource extraction · overharvesting
Declines in condition
- dilutionsWeakened liquid mixtures
- diminishmentsActs of making smaller
- lossesThings subtracted from standing
- erosionsGradual wearing processes
vulgarizations · cheapening · simplifications · homogenizations · standardizations · commodifications · sanitizations · bowdlerizations
deprivations
States of lacking necessities
- bankruptciesLegal declarations of insolvency
- ruinationsActs causing total collapse
- impecuniousnessLack of funds
penury · indigence · hardships · privations · scarcity · want · neediness · dispossession · disinheritance · foreclosures
emptiness
Absence of substance
- hollownessState of being empty inside
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
- vacuityUtter emptiness or blankness
shallowness · soullessness · meaninglessness · alienation · disconnection · estrangement · anomie · desolation · aridity · sterility
exhaustions
States of utter weariness
- diminishmentsActs of making smaller
- degradationsDeclines in condition
- depletionsActs of using up
erosions · drainings · reductions · deteriorations · declines · debilitations · weakening · resource extraction · overharvesting · deforestation
degradations
Declines in condition
- dilutionsWeakened liquid mixtures
- diminishmentsActs of making smaller
- lossesThings subtracted from standing
erosions · vulgarizations · cheapening · simplifications · homogenizations · standardizations · commodifications · sanitizations · bowdlerizations · dumbing-down
impoverishmentsenrichments
Additions that improve quality
prosperities · endowments · fortifications · capitalizations · augmentations
impoverishmentsenrichments
Additions that improve quality
enhancements · embellishments · augmentations · elaborations · amplifications