AMELIORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amelioration mean? 

• AMELIORATION (noun)
  The noun AMELIORATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of relieving ills and changing for the better

  Familiarity information: AMELIORATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMELIORATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of relieving ills and changing for the better

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

amelioration; betterment; melioration

Hypernyms ("amelioration" is a kind of...):

improvement (the act of improving something)

Derivation:

ameliorate (get better)

ameliorate (to make better)

 Context examples 

In addition, D-cycloserine is an excitatory amino acid and partial agonist at the glycine binding site of the NMDA receptor in the central nervous system (CNS); binding to the central NMDA receptor may result in amelioration of neuropathic pain.

(Cycloserine, NCI Thesaurus)