Detriment  

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"Nouveau réalisme was inspired by consumerism and industrial society, from which they extracted—unlike pop art—its most unpleasant aspect, with a special predilection for detrimental materials." --Sholem Stein

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  1. Harm, hurt, damage.

Etymology

From Old French detriement, from Latin detrimentum (“loss, damage, literally a rubbing off”), from deterere (“to rub off, wear”), from de- (“down, away”) + terere (“to rub”).




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