alleviation

Etymology

noun

  1. the act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.
    The only light is from a high barred window, and it is not so much light as an alleviation of the murk. 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 660
  2. the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement

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