Usually means: Reduction in size, extent, or importance.
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  1. diminishment: Merriam-Webster
  2. diminishment: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Diminishment, diminishment: Wordnik
  4. diminishment: Wiktionary
  5. Diminishment, diminishment: Dictionary.com
  6. Diminishment (geometry), Diminishment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Diminishment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. diminishment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Diminishment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. diminishment: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Diminishment: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. diminishment: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (diminishment)

▸ noun:  The act of diminishing; reducing in size, quantity, or quality.

Similar:
diminution, minishment, imminution, diminutization, decreasement, decline, deminution, lessening, decrease, fading, more...

Opposite:
growth, expansion, increase, augmentation

Types:
lessening, dwindling, declining, decreasing, ebbing, fading, waning, more...

Adjectives:
gradual, such, personal, further, own, significant, corresponding, progressive, inevitable, physical, rapid

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke,     taupe, more...

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Similar:
diminution, minishment, imminution, diminutization, decreasement, decline, deminution, lessening, decrease, fading, more...

Opposite:
growth, expansion, increase, augmentation

Types:
lessening, dwindling, declining, decreasing, ebbing, fading, waning, more...

Adjectives:
gradual, such, personal, further, own, significant, corresponding, progressive, inevitable, physical, rapid

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke,     taupe, more...



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