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Dilapidation vs Deterioration - What's the difference?

dilapidation | deterioration |

As nouns the difference between dilapidation and deterioration

is that dilapidation is the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined while deterioration is the process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

dilapidation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
  • (legal) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or by intention.
  • (British, legal) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.

    • Related terms

    * dilapidate * dilapidated * dilapidator

    See also

    * stoning * (wikipedia "dilapidation") ----

    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