immiseration

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immiseration

/ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ UK
/ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃən/ US

Rhymes with -eɪʃən

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

noun immiserations

countable, uncountable 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.
Similar: immiserization

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@misc{immiseration_2026,
  title = {immiseration},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/immiseration},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}