say it: di-maw-ruh-li-ZAY-shuhn
demoralization is a noun meaning "destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy". It carries 3 recorded senses.
destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy
a state of disorder and confusion
“his inconsistency resulted in the demoralization of his staff”
depression resulting from an undermining of your morale
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for demoralization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.