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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
mollification is a noun meaning "a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered
the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined
“a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants”
“his unsuccessful mollification of the mob”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mollification come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.