devitalization
nounEtymology From devitalize + -ation.
1
The act or process of devitalizing; its results.
- The wands are Spenser's phallic white rods, here symbolizing wintry devitalization.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- Synonyms
- deanimation, de-energization, devitalization, disanimation
- Antonyms
- animation, blooming, blossoming, booming, enlivening, growth, invigoration, reanimation, revivification, thriving, vitalization, vivification, waxing
- Hypernyms
- diminishment, suppression
- Hyponyms
- relaxation, benumbment, sedation
- Coordinate terms
- bleeding, death, dieback, dormancy, failure to thrive, flagging, killing, lifelessness, morbidity, moribundity, moribundness, mortality, sapping, unliveliness, weakening, waning, wilting, wizening