The act of relieving ills and changing for the better.

synonyms: amelioration, betterment.

Roget 658: improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending etc. v.; advancement; advance etc. (progress) 282; ascent etc. 305; promotion, preferment; elevation etc. 307; increase etc. 35; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture^†; race-culture, eugenics.    reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts, correction, limoe labor [Lat.], refinement, elaboration; purification etc. 652; oxidation; repair etc. (restoration) 660; recovery etc. 660.    revise, new edition.    reformer, radical.    ... show more

Dutch: verbetering
Polish: doskonalenie

A condition superior to an earlier condition.

synonym: improvement.

The linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning.