What is the difference between deflation and inflation?
deflation | inflation | Antonyms |
An act or instance of deflating.
(economics) A decrease in the general price level, that is, in the nominal cost of goods and services as well as wages.
(economics, euphemistic) An economic contraction.
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An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
(economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
(economics) A decline in the value of money.
(economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
(cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
Inflation is a antonym of deflation.
In economics terms the difference between deflation and inflation
is that deflation is a decrease in the general price level, that is, in the nominal cost of goods and services as well as wages while inflation is an increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.As nouns the difference between deflation and inflation
is that deflation is an act or instance of deflating while inflation is an act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.deflation
English
(wikipedia deflation)Noun
(en noun)- The loss caused utter deflation and disappointment among the fans.
Synonyms
* (decrease in price level) disinflation * (economic contraction) impoverishmentAntonyms
* inflationDerived terms
* deflationaryAnagrams
*inflation
English
(wikipedia inflation)Noun
(en noun)- The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
