damnation

/dæmˈneɪʃən/

/dæmˈneɪʃən/

Other forms: damnations

Damnation is the act of damning, which is a lot like condemning. Damnation dooms people.

In many religious traditions, when someone is damned, it means they are doomed to suffer horribly in hell forever. Damnation, therefore, is the action of sending someone to hell. However, this word can refer to other forms of being condemned. Being sentenced to prison is a type of damnation. Being disgraced in public is a type of damnation. Anything that dooms you is damnation of a sort. Often, damnation comes from our own actions.

Definitions of damnation

1. noun

   the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell
   synonyms: eternal damnation

   types:

   fire and brimstone

   (Old Testament) God's means of destroying sinners

   type of:

   state

   the way something is with respect to its main attributes
2. noun

   the act of damning
   type of:

   denouncement, denunciation

   a public act of denouncing