diminution
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English diminucioun, from Anglo-Norman diminuciun, Old French diminucion, from Latin dīminūtiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
diminution (countable and uncountable, plural diminutions)
- A lessening, decrease or reduction.
- The new emission standards have produced a measurable diminution in air pollution.
- 2020, Frank Bruni, Donald Trump Is the Best Ever President in the History of the Cosmos[1]:
- That’s the question at the heart of [Donald Trump's] re-election bid, because his strategy isn’t really “law and order” or racism or a demonization of liberals as monument-phobic wackadoodles or a diminution of Joe Biden as a doddering wreck.
- The act or process of making diminutive.
- (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.
Synonyms[edit]
- (lessening, decrease): diminishment
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
lessening, decrease or reduction
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French diminucion, borrowed from Latin dīminūtiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
diminution f (plural diminutions)
Further reading[edit]
- “diminution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua[edit]
Noun[edit]
diminution (plural diminutiones)
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