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Depletion vs Deterioration - What's the difference?

depletion | deterioration |

As nouns the difference between depletion and deterioration

is that depletion is the act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion while deterioration is the process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

depletion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion
  • the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished

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    deterioration

    English

    Noun

  • The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 4 , author=Lewis Smith , title=Queen's English Society says enuf is enough, innit? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee but the Queen's English Society, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold.}}

    Antonyms

    * amelioration