Found 2 items, similar to melioration.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: melioration melioration n 1: the act of relieving ills and changing for the better [syn: amelioration, betterment] 2: a condition superior to an earlier condition; “the new school represents a great improvement” [syn: improvement] [ant: decline] 3: the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning
English → English (gcide) Definition: Melioration Melioration \Mel`io*ra"tion\, n. [L. melioratio.] The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]