mitigation

Nouns

  • (n) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious extenuation, palliation,
  • (n) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances extenuation,
  • (n) the action of lessening in severity or intensity
    • the object being control or moderation of economic depressions
    moderation,

Synonyms

extenuation palliation moderation

Words of close approximity

mitigative