Associations to the word «Mitigation»

Wiktionary

MITIGATION, noun. Relief; alleviation

Dictionary definition

MITIGATION, noun. To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious.
MITIGATION, noun. A partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances.
MITIGATION, noun. The action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions".

Wise words

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis