ruralization

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun the process of making rural.
2. noun the change in a country or region when its population migrates from urban to rural areas
3. noun the process of the formation of villages and the decline of big cities
4. noun the proportion of a region's population that live in villages and small communities; the rate at which this proportion is growing

Similar words

rurbanization agriculturalization suburbanization reurbanization provincialization routinization redneckification cityfication reracialization routinisation

Often followed by

of and in is process