Denunciation VS denouncement

denouncement: 1.to condemn or censure openly or publicly: to denounce apolitician as

morally corrupt.



2.to make a formal accusation against, as to the police or in acourt.










denunciation:1. an act or instance of denouncing; public censure orcondemnation.

2.an accusation of c

denunciation is a transitive verb while denouncement is an adjective

Anonymousdenunciation is a transitive verb while denouncement is an adjective

Sorry, but they are both nouns.

So they both mean the exact same thing no difference between them whatsoever?

Yes these are nouns. Neither are adjectives!

Anonymousdenouncement: 1.to condemn or censure openly or publicly: to denounce apolitician as morally corrupt. 2.to make a formal accusation against, as to the police or in acourt.

Those definitions apply to the verb, "denounce," not "denouncement."

I've never heard "denouncement" in my life. Use "denunciation."

Though this is becoming like standing on the shore seeking to hold back the tide, the difference between denouncement and denunciation is that the former is not in fact a word and the latter is. Whenever you're tempted to use denouncement use denunciation.

I would politely disagree with the previous contributor, at least up to a point. "Denouncement" does exist as a word (it appears as an alternative form in various dictionaries) but it is hardly ever used; I have worked as an editor and proofreader for many many years and only once ever seen it in print, from a Chinese academic who had found it in a dictionary. The word "denunciation" ha