amelioration
the act or process of making something better
Root
- melior: better
Other words with the melior root
- ameliorate: to make better or less bad
- ameliorative: improving or meant to make better
- meliorism: belief that the world can be improved
Amelioration is improvement as a process: the situation gets less bad, step by step.
Better feedback led to the amelioration of the course.
Amelioration is ameliorate turned into a process. The word is useful when change is gradual: less harm, less confusion, less pressure, more room to breathe.