remission

noun

1. the act of remitting.
2. pardon; forgiveness, as of sins or offenses.
3. abatement or diminution, as of diligence, labor, intensity, etc.
4. the relinquishment of a payment, obligation, etc.
5. Medicine/Medical.
   1. a temporary or permanent decrease or subsidence of manifestations of a disease.
   2. a period during which such a decrease or subsidence occurs: The patient’s leukemia was in remission.

noun

1. the act of remitting or state of being remitted
2. a reduction of the term of a sentence of imprisonment, as for good conducthe got three years’ remission
3. forgiveness for sin
4. discharge or release from penalty, obligation, etc
5. lessening of intensity; abatement, as in the severity of symptoms of a disease

n.

c.1200, “forgiveness or pardon (of sins),” from Old French remission “forgiveness (of sins), relief” (12c.), from Latin remissionem (nominative remissio) “relaxation, diminishing,” lit. “a sending back, sending away,” noun of action from past participle stem of remittere “slacken, let go, abate” (see remit). Used of diseases since early 15c.

n.

1. Abatement or subsiding of the symptoms of a disease.
2. The period during which the symptoms of a disease abate or subside.

1. Abatement or subsiding of the symptoms of a disease.

A period in the course of a disease when symptoms become less severe.