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語源

From French amélioration.

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˌmiːliəˈɹeɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

amelioration (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 ameliorations)

1. The act of making better.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 262:

     The tumult was over, and all things returned to their old place; and the abuse remained without remedy, and the wrong without redress. Ah! if the doctrine of amelioration be true, what a mighty debt does the future owe to the past!

   Antonym: deterioration

2. An improvement.

   Synonym: revamp

3. (linguistics) The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time.

   Antonym: pejoration

4. (philosophy) An ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts.

   pre-amelioration

   post-amelioration