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mollification
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mollification has 2 senses
- mollification(n = noun.state) Array - a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered; Array is a kind of peaceableness, peacefulness
- mollification(n = noun.act) pacification - the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob" is a kind of appeasement, calming
Derived forms verb mollify2, verb mollify1
Derived forms verb mollify2, verb mollify1
CIDE DICTIONARY
mollification, n. [LL. mollificatio; cf. F. mollification.].
The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
mollification
Softness
N softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.
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