palliation

Etymology

Old (and modern) French, from late Latin palliare (“cover”), from pallium.

noun

1. The alleviation of a disease's symptoms without a cure; temporary relief.
   The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
   Una nox dormienda means that one final night that has to be slept through after a few score years of pain and its palliations, of pleasure and disgust after pleasure. 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked
2. Extenuation; mitigation.