1. The act of taking something from the merit or worth of another from envy or malice, with a view to injure his reputation.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• dereaction,
• defraction,
• detacation,
• derection,
• ditractions,
• diraction,
• detruction,
• destriction,
• deriction,
• depracation,
• abtraction,
• destrction,
• disraction,
• desruction,
• destraction,
• deffraction,
• ditraction,
• difraction,
• deteration,
• dedaction

• detractor,
• traction,
• attraction,
• detractive,
• destruction,
• deatherage,
• detract.

The adverb form of "detraction" is "detractively".

The adjective form of the word "detraction" is "detractive".

The plural of the "detraction" can be the "detractions".

The singular of the "detraction" can be the "detraction".