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Erleichterung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • alleviation noun The act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.
  • ease noun The quality of being simple or effortless.
  • facilitation noun The act of facilitating or making easy.
  • mitigation noun The act of reducing the severity, seriousness, or impact of something harmful.
  • relief noun A feeling of ease or reassurance after the removal of stress, pain, or worry.
  • reprieve verb To cancel or delay a punishment, especially an execution.

Senses

Erleichterung is used for these senses in English:

  • facilitation The act of facilitating or making easy.
  • facilitation (physiology) The process of synapses becoming more capable of transmitting the same type of signal each time certain types of sensory signals pass through sequences of these synapses.
  • mitigation A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
  • relief The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
  • reprieve Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.

alleviation — full definition

  1. noun The act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.
  2. noun the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement

ease — full definition

  1. noun The quality of being simple or effortless.
  2. noun A relaxed state, free from worry, pain, or awkwardness.
  3. verb To make something less difficult, painful, or intense.

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