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Synonyms for impoverishment

Most common

poverty poorness

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    The action of impoverishing someone.

Forms

Plural
impoverishments → poverties, poornesses, immiserations, pauperizations…

Example sentences

  • poverty The issue of Third World poverty is very pressing.
  • poorness When I mock poorness, then Heaven make me poor.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
impoverishmentsteady
povertyrising
poornessfalling
immiserationrising
pauperizationfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

7 letters
poverty3
8 letters
poorness
12 letters
immiseration
13 letters
pauperization, pauperisation, moneylessness

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (poverty3 = 3 syllables).

In other languages

Français
appauvrissement
Italiano
impoverimento