All shrinkage synonyms
shrink·age
S s noun shrinkage
- niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
- lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
- low water — water at its lowest level, as in a river.
- insufficience — Obsolete form of insufficiency.
- economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- elision — The omission of a sound or syllable when speaking (as in I‘m, let’s, e ' en ).
- lessening — to become less.
- losings — causing or suffering loss.
- backflow — a reverse flow, the movement (of a liquid) in the opposite direction to its previous, natural or intended direction
- exiguity — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
- loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- miserliness — of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- contraction — When a woman who is about to give birth has contractions, she experiences a very strong, painful tightening of the muscles of her womb.
- ebb — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).