Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mollification

2 senses of mollification

Sense 1
mollification -- (a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered)
       => peaceableness, peacefulness -- (a state that is calm and tranquil)

Sense 2
pacification, mollification -- (the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob")
       => appeasement, calming -- (the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of))

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