diminishment

The rapid diminishment in quality of life described by residents represents another setback in city leaders’ attempts to provide long-term stability to one of the region’s largest portfolios of homeless housing.

Because of this “loss of potential population,” the states face “subsequent ‘diminishment of political representation’ and ‘loss of federal funds,’ such as potentially ‘losing a seat in Congress or qualifying for less federal funding if their populations are’ reduced or their increase diminished.”

When it comes to fertility, there’s even some published data showing that rapamycin can slow the diminishment of the ovarian reserve of—again—mice in labs.

Indeed, in its current usage, it is a dismissive term, a labeling of bizarre behavior or beliefs that implies not a threat but a diminishment.

But “to me it doesn’t feel like ‘clarity’; it feels like diminishment” of shareholder voices.