About The Word Mitigation
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Mitigation
| Mitigation Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Mitigation?
[n] to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
[n] a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
Synonyms | Synonyms for Mitigation: extenuation |
extenuation |
palliation
Related Terms | Find terms related to Mitigation: abatement |
about-face |
abridgment |
accommodation |
adaptation |
adjustment |
allayment |
alleviation |
allowance |
alteration |
amelioration |
analgesia |
anesthesia |
anesthetizing |
apostasy |
appeasement |
assuagement |
attenuation |
attrition |
benevolence |
betterment |
blunting |
break |
calming |
change |
change of heart |
changeableness |
clemency |
color |
commiseration |
compassion |
condolence |
constructive change |
continuity |
contraction |
conversion |
dampening |
damping |
deadening |
debilitation |
decontamination |
decrease |
decrement |
decrescence |
deduction |
defection |
deflation |
degeneration |
degenerative change |
demulsion |
depreciation |
depression |
deterioration |
deviation |
devitalization |
difference |
dilution |
diminishment |
diminution |
discontinuity |
divergence |
diversification |
diversion |
diversity |
dulcification |
dulling |
dying |
dying off |
ease |
easement |
easing |
effemination |
enervation |
enfeeblement |
evisceration |
exhaustion |
extenuating circumstances |
extenuation |
extenuative |
fade-out |
falling-off |
fatigue |
favor |
feeling |
fitting |
flip-flop |
forbearance |
forgiveness |
gilding |
gloss |
grace |
gradual change |
humanity |
hushing |
improvement |
inanition |
kindness |
languishment |
leniency |
lessening |
letdown |
letup |
lightening |
loosening |
lowering |
lulling |
melioration |
mercy |
miniaturization |
modification |
modulation |
mollification |
numbing |
overthrow |
pacification |
palliation |
palliative |
pardon |
pathos |
pity |
qualification |
quarter |
quietening |
quieting |
radical change |
realignment |
re-creation |
redesign |
reduction |
reform |
reformation |
relaxation |
relief |
remaking |
remedy |
remission |
renewal |
reprieve |
reshaping |
restructuring |
reversal |
revival |
revivification |
revolution |
ruth |
sagging |
salving |
scaling down |
self-pity |
shift |
simplicity |
slackening |
softening |
soothing |
subduement |
subtraction |
sudden change |
switch |
sympathy |
tempering |
thinning |
total change |
tranquilization |
transition |
turn |
turnabout |
upheaval |
variation |
variety |
varnish |
violent change |
weakening |
whitewash |
whitewashing |
worsening
See Also | alibi |
decrease |
diminution |
exculpation |
excuse |
reduction |
self-justification |
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Mitigation In Webster's Dictionary
\Mit`i*ga"tion\, n. [OE. mitigacioun, F. mitigation,
fr. L. mitigatio.]
The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated;
abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe,
afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief,
rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.
Syn: Alleviation; abatement; relief.
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