1. devaluing - Noun
2. devaluing - Verb
devaluing
present participle of devalue
devaluing (countable and uncountable, plural devaluings)
devaluation
Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it. André Malraux
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. Karl Lagerfeld
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb"He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down. Chinua Achebe
In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation' -- a devaluing of the world and its creator. Richard Louv
If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life. Thandie Newton
Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation. Marilyn Manson