Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

immiseration

/ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English

Syllables: im-mi-ser-at-ion
IPA: /ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃən/

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Prefix: in-
Suffix: miserable

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃən/
British English: /ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/

Usage

Inflected Forms

immiserations (plural)

Derived Forms

immiserate

Synonyms

immiserization

Rhymes With

information education situation population station association administration operation organization head station nation location

Questions

How do you pronounce immiseration?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃən/.
What does immiseration mean?: Synonym of immiserization (“the process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization”).
Where does immiseration come from?: 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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