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alleviation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun alleviation has 2 senses
- alleviation(n = noun.feeling) assuagement, relief - the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief" is a kind of comfort
- alleviation(n = noun.act) easement, easing, relief - the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain" is a kind of decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down
Derived form verb alleviate1
has particulars: spasmolysis, detente, palliation, liberalisation, liberalization, relaxation, decompressing, decompression
Derived form verb alleviate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
alleviation, n. [LL. alleviatio.].
- The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief. [1913 Webster]
- That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. [1913 Webster]"I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
alleviation
abatement, abridgment, allayment, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, blunting, calming, contraction, dampening, damping, deadening, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, demulsion, depreciation, depression, diminishment, diminution, disburdening, disencumberment, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, extenuation, fade-out, falling-off, hushing, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, sagging, salving, scaling down, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subtraction, tempering, tranquilization, unballasting, unburdening, unfreighting, unlading, unloading, unsaddling, untaxing, weakeningROGET THESAURUS
alleviation
Relief
N relief, deliverance, refreshment, easement, softening, alleviation, mitigation, palliation, soothing, lullaby, solace, consolation, comfort, encouragement, lenitive, restorative, cushion, crumb of comfort, balm in Gilead, relieving, consolatory, soothing, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, lenitive, palliative, anodyne, curative, here comes a man of comfort.
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