different between immiseration vs impoverishment

English

From im- +? miser(y) +? -ation.

immiseration (countable and uncountable, plural immiserations)

The process of making miserable, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment.
- 2011, Jacqueline Stevens, States Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals, p. 23:
  Even Thomas More, the most populist of the sixteenth-century humanists striving to overcome the immiserations of serfdom, did not question slavery but endorsed it, as did, of course, the U.S. government as late as 1861.
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 627:
  Unimaginable amounts of suffering have been caused by tyrants who callously presided over the immiseration of their peoples or launched destructive wars of conquest.

From Anglo-Norman empoverissement, from the Old French verb empoverir. Surface analysis impoverish +? -ment.

impoverishment (usually uncountable, plural impoverishments)

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