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alleviation

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noun
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As a noun, alleviation means the act of alleviating.

Meanings of alleviation

3 meanings

noun

  1. The act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.

  2. The act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement

  3. The feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reducedfeeling

    “as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief”

    Similar: relief, assuagement

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: the feeling that comes when something burdensome is remov…
reliefassuagement
noun: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or anno…
easingeasementrelief

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