deterioration vs devastation

deterioration and devastation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deterioration	Yes	No	No	No
devastation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, devastation is a hyponym of deterioration; that is, devastation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than deterioration:

deterioration: a symptom of reduced quality or strength
devastation: the state of being decayed or destroyed

Other hyponyms of deterioration include corrosion, desolation, decrepitude, dilapidation, wear.

deterioration (noun)	devastation (noun)
process of changing to an inferior state	the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
a symptom of reduced quality or strength	plundering with excessive damage and destruction
	an event that results in total destruction
	the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
	the state of being decayed or destroyed

deterioration vs devastation

deterioration and devastation both are nouns.

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