Synonyms and related words :
abatement, allayment, alleviation, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, appeasing, assuagement, blunting, calming, cradling, damping, deadening, demulsion, diminishment, diminution, dreamy, drowsy, dulcification, dulling, ease, easement, easing, falling-off, gentling, hushing, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, mitigation, modulation, mollification, mollifying, numbing, pacification, pacifying, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, restful, rocking, salving, slackening, softening, soothful, soothing, stilling, subduement, tempering, tranquilization, tranquilizing