Plural of devastation; instances or experiences of great destruction or overwhelming emotional harm.
From devastate + -tion (Latin suffix forming nouns) + -s (English plural). The suffix -tion transforms the verb into a noun describing the result or process of devastation.
The plural form is particularly interesting because devastation is often treated as an uncountable noun, yet we can use 'devastations' to count multiple separate catastrophic events—like talking about 'the devastations of two hurricanes' separately!
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