Debasement vs Adulteration - What's the difference?
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The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality.
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The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
The action of adulterating, being mixed with extraneous material, illicit substitution of one substance for another.
Debasement is a related term of adulteration.
As nouns the difference between debasement and adulteration
is that debasement is the act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality while adulteration is the action of adulterating, being mixed with extraneous material, illicit substitution of one substance for another.debasement
English
Noun
(en noun)- His large water-dog was acquainted with the fact, and upon the approach of his master, betrayed his sense of inferiority by a sanctity of deportment, a debasement of the ears, and a dropping of the lower jaw not altogether unworthy of a dog.
- She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses.
The Many Faces of Addiction(Book review of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life'' by Benoit Denizet-Lewis)," ''Time , 12 Jan.:
- There's something ugly and fascinating about reading such intimate tales of debasement and depression and failure and self-doubt.