different between depreciation vs subsidence

English

From French dépréciation.

depreciation (countable and uncountable, plural depreciations)

The state of being depreciated; disparagement.
The decline in value of assets.
(accounting) The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.

Latin subsidens, subsidentis, present participle of subsidere.

subsidence (countable and uncountable, plural subsidences)

The process of becoming less active or severe.
- 1754, William Warburton, Sermon preached before the King, at Kensington, October 27, 1754
  The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions.
(geology) A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation, seismic activity or underground or ground water depletion.

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