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• n  change toward something smaller or lower
• n  the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)
• n  the act of decreasing or reducing something

• Through the ages, there has been an overall trend toward larger units claiming sovereignty and, paradoxically, a gradual diminution of how much true sovereignty any one country .
• But none of these lite private colleges have announced any diminution of the preferences they have for wealthy kids or legacies, and they're not willing to give up their .
• But his success to date means that Tendulkar could leave the field tomorrow without any diminution of circumstances.

• decline
• decrease
• reduction
• step-down

• augmentation
• increase

News & Articles

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• Weird but true
  A 9/11 memorial in California incorporating steel from the World Trade Center is advertising an upcoming fund-raiser with a flier stating, “Celebrating Napa’s 30-ton erection.” The phallic joke was criticized by some as a diminution of the Napa 9/11 Memorial Project. *** An Idaho company claims to have...
  June 23, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Condoleezza Rice in Forbes
  None of us knows the full story of precisely what the militias are doing,Rice said. "But if there is a diminution in the violence as a result, if they have decided that they are not going to challenge the Baghdad security plan, then the...
• Walters in Kansas City Star
  You've had a slow diminution of old Southern senators, the die-hard segregationists who fought the Lyndon Johnson civil rights legislation only to have a conversion,said Ronald Walters, a retired University of Maryland political science...
• Christopher Meyer in BBC News
  Sir Christopher said: "Far from seeing a diminution in work on privacy we have seen an increase in the number of privacy issues."