'Mitigation' definitions:
Definition of 'mitigation'
(from WordNet)
noun
To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious [syn: extenuation, mitigation, palliation]
noun
A partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances [syn: extenuation, mitigation]
noun
The action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions" [syn: moderation, mitigation]
Definition of 'Mitigation'
From: GCIDE
- Mitigation \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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Alleviation; abatement; relief. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mitigation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- 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