remission - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'remission' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Remission

[ n.]

- The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
- Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
- Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
- A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.
- The act of sending back.
- Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

Meaning of 'remission' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . remission

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)

Example in sentence:

his cancer is in remission

Nearby Words:

remade remain remainder remainder-man remainder-men remained remaining remake remand remanded

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Spontaneous remission
Spontaneous remission, recovery without treatment.

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