devaluation.

1. A reduction in the importance or worth assigned to someone or something.

2. An official reduction in a currency's value relative to its reference rate.

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Words that belong together

• devaluation of work
• devaluation of a person

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Repeated dismissals led to the devaluation of her work.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: character, interpretation. Commonness: moderately common.