assuagement

1. 1.

   the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced

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

   Synonymsreliefalleviation

   Broadercomfort

Other forms of assuagement

plural

assuagements·

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 assuagement

What does assuagement mean?

assuagement means "the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced".

How many syllables are in assuagement?

assuagement has 5 syllables: as-su-a-ge-ment. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for assuagement?

Close synonyms include relief, alleviation. 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 assuagement a common word?

assuagement 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.