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Vitiation vs Contamination - What's the difference?

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Vitiation is a related term of contamination.


As nouns the difference between vitiation and contamination

is that vitiation is a reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something while contamination is the act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

vitiation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something
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  • Lincoln once reprimanded a young army officer for in-
    dulging in a violent controversy with an associate. "No
    man who is resolved to make the most of himself," said
    Lincoln, "can spare time for personal contention. Still less
    can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitia-
    tion
    of his temper and the loss of self-control. [...]
  • moral corruption
  • an abolition or abrogation
  • 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.