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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced;
- Example: "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief"
[syn: relief, alleviation, assuagement]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Assuagement \As*suage"ment\, n. [OF. assouagement, asuagement.]
   Mitigation; abatement.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

assuagement
    n 1: the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed
         or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded
         with relief" [syn: relief, alleviation, assuagement]