denigration - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

By surface analysis, denigrate +‎ -ion.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

denigration (countable and uncountable, plural denigrations)

1. The act of making black; a blackening or defamation.
2. An unfair criticism.

   • 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:

     To nostalgic eyes they became absolutely and almost mercifully unrecognisable. Nor did they escape a full measure of denigration.

• denigrate
• self-denigration

• belittlement
• disparagement

• argentinoid, derationing