melioration

Nouns

  • (n) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better amelioration, betterment,
  • (n) a condition superior to an earlier condition
    • the new school represents a great improvement
    improvement,
  • (n) the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning

Synonyms

amelioration betterment improvement

Antonyms

declination decline

Words of close approximity

meliorative