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calming
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun calming has 1 sense
- calming(n = noun.act) appeasement - the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of); Array is a kind of social control
has particulars: mollification, pacification, conciliation, placation, propitiation
CIDE DICTIONARY
calming, adj.
- tending to soothe or calm or tranquilize. [WordNet 1.5]
- freeing from fear and anxiety. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
calming
United Nations troops, abatement, allayment, alleviation, appeasement, appeasing, assuagement, blunting, conciliation, cradling, damping, deadening, demulsion, detente, diminution, dreamy, drowsy, dulcification, dulling, easing, easing of relations, falling-off, gentling, hushing, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, mediation, mitigation, modulation, mollification, mollifying, pacification, pacifying, palliation, peace-keeping force, peacemaking, peacemongering, placability, placation, propitiation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relaxation of tension, remission, restful, rocking, slackening, softening, soothful, soothing, stilling, subduement, tempering, tranquilization, tranquilizing
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