mitigation (n.)

• abatement
• about-face
• abridgment
• accommodation
• adaptation
• adjustment
• alleviation
• allowance
• alteration
• amelioration
• analgesia
• anesthesia
• apostasy
• appeasement
• assuagement
• attenuation
• attrition
• benevolence
• betterment
• break
• calming
• change
• changeableness
• clemency
• color
• commiseration
• compassion
• condolence
• continuity
• contraction
• conversion
• dampening
• deadening
• debilitation
• decontamination
• decrease
• decrement
• deduction
• defection
• deflation
• degeneration
• depreciation
• depression
• deterioration
• deviation
• devitalization
• difference
• dilution
• diminution
• discontinuity
• divergence
• diversification
• diversion
• diversity
• dying
• ease
• easement
• easing
• enervation
• enfeeblement
• evisceration
• exhaustion
• extenuation
• fatigue
• favor
• feeling
• fitting
• flip-flop
• forbearance
• forgiveness
• gilding
• gloss
• grace
• humanity
• hushing
• improvement
• inanition
• kindness
• leniency
• lessening
• letdown
• letup
• lightening
• loosening
• lowering
• melioration
• mercy
• miniaturization
• modification
• modulation
• mollification
• overthrow
• pacification
• palliation
• palliative
• pardon
• pathos
• pity
• qualification
• quarter
• re-creation
• reduction
• reform
• reformation
• relaxation
• relief
• remaking
• remedy
• remission
• renewal
• reprieve
• reversal
• revival
• revivification
• revolution
• ruth
• self-pity
• shift
• simplicity
• slackening
• softening
• subtraction
• switch
• sympathy
• tempering
• thinning
• transition
• turn
• turnabout
• upheaval
• variation
• variety
• varnish
• weakening
• whitewash
• worsening