alleviation

1. 1.

   the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced

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

   Synonymsreliefassuagement

   Broadercomfort
2. 2.

   the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

   “he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain”

   Synonymseasingeasementrelief

   Broaderdecrease

   Narrowerspasmolysisdetentepalliationliberalizationdecompression

Other forms of alleviation

plural

alleviations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alleviation

What does alleviation mean?

alleviation means "the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alleviation?

alleviation has 5 syllables: al-le-vi-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /əˌliviˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for alleviation?

Close synonyms include relief, assuagement, easing, easement, relief. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alleviation a common word?

alleviation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with alleviation?

133 words rhyme with alleviation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.