denigration

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, denigrate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

denigration (countable and uncountable, plural denigrations)

1. The act of making black; a blackening or defamation.
2. An unfair criticism.
   • 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:

     To nostalgic eyes they became absolutely and almost mercifully unrecognisable. Nor did they escape a full measure of denigration.

Related terms

• denigrate
• self-denigration

Translations

blackening or defamation

• Arabic: تَسْوِيد (taswīd)
• Azerbaijani: qarayaxma
• Bulgarian: очерня́не (bg) n (očernjáne), почерня́не n (počernjáne)
• Finnish: mustamaalaus (fi)
• German: Verunglimpfung (de) f
• Icelandic: ófræging f, mannorðsspjöll n
• Macedonian: оцрну́вање n (ocrnúvanje), кле́вета f (kléveta)
• Russian: очерне́ние (ru) n (očernénije), клевета́ (ru) f (klevetá), диффама́ция (ru) f (diffamácija), хула́ (ru) f (xulá)
• Serbo-Croatian: дениграција f (formally), оцрњивање n
• Spanish: denigración (es) f
• Swedish: smutskastning (sv) c

unfair criticism

• German: Anschwärzung f
• Irish: aithisiú m
• Maori: whakatakētanga

See also

• belittlement
• disparagement

Anagrams

• argentinoid, derationing