extenuation

Significado (Inglés)

1. (countable, uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
5. (countable, uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
6. (countable, obsolete, rhetoric, uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
7. (countable, uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.
8. (US, countable, humorous, in-plural, uncountable) The action of extenuating; extenuated condition.

Conceptos

atenuación

extenuación

encubrimiento

Sinónimos

mitigation

palliation

emaciation

defense

exculpation

excuse

exhaustion

extenuate

inanition

justification

languidness

languish

leanness

listlessness

mollification

pardon

plea

softening

support

underestimate

underestimation

underrate

underrating

whitewashing

glossing over

apology

defense team

borrowing

defence

Traducciones

attenuazione

atténuation

embellissement

Beschönigung

Nachsicht

Schonung

ελάφρυνση

ελαφρυντικό

exténuation

mitigation

riduzione

addolcimento

diminuzione

estenuazione

mitigazione

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɪksˌtɛnjʊˈeɪʃən/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con francés: exténuation

In summary

An adaptation of extenuātiōn-, the oblique stem of the Latin extenuātiō (“a thinning or diminishing”, “rarefaction”; rhetoric “a lessening”, “diminution”, “extenuation”), noun of action from extenuō (“I thin, reduce, or diminish”). Equivalent to extenuate + -ion. Compare the French exténuation.