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Contamination vs Squalor - What's the difference?

contamination | squalor |

As nouns the difference between contamination and squalor

is that contamination is the act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates while squalor is squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.

contamination

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
  • (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
  • (linguistics, etymology) The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
  • The process of making a material or surface unclean or unsuited for its intended purpose, usually by the addition or attachment of undesirable foreign substances.

    • squalor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.
  • * The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor . -- Taylor
  • * To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. -- Dickens
  • ** Dickens also used the term to refer to those living in Squalor, such as those in the slums.

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