Synonyms for Softening:

• adj.

  •comforting (adjective)
  • more warming,
  • most health-giving,
  • more alleviating,
  • most abating,
  • more reassuring,
  • most consoling,
  • freeinger,
  • more consoling,
  • more healthgiving,
  • re vivifying,
  • re-freshing,
  • more assuaging,
  • most revivifying,
  • most solacing,
  • more mitigating,
  • more heart-warming,
  • more remedying,
  • more solacing,
  • in-spiriting,
  • most analeptic,
  • more succoring,
  • more inspiriting,
  • re-assuring,
  • most heart warming,
  • most upholding,
  • more revivifying,
  • most revitalizing,
  • more relieving,
  • more health-giving,
  • more consolatory,
  • most heart-warming,
  • most health giving,
  • re storing,
  • re assuring,
  • heart warming,
  • most succoring,
  • more analeptic,
  • more heart warming,
  • more restoring,
  • more sustaining,
  • most relieving,
  • re freshing,
  • most reassuring,
  • re-storing,
  • most mitigating,
  • more allaying,
  • more revitalizing,
  • most allaying,
  • re-vitalizing,
  • re-vivifying,
  • health giving,
  • in spiriting,
  • most consolatory,
  • most lightening,
  • most alleviating,
  • most sustaining,
  • healthgiving,
  • more health giving,
  • more tranquilizing,
  • most remedying,
  • more abating,
  • freeingest,
  • most tranquilizing,
  • up holding,
  • most restoring,
  • up-holding,
  • more lightening,
  • most warming,
  • more upholding,
  • most assuaging,
  • most healthgiving,
  • re vitalizing,
  • most inspiriting.
  •emollient (adjective)
  • balsamic,
  • lenitive,
  • palliative.
  •extenuating (adjective)
  • Justifying,
  • reducing.
  •lessening (adjective)
  • most sagging,
  • sub-siding,
  • most declining,
  • more slumping,
  • most slowing,
  • more wasting,
  • most dwindling,
  • most slackening,
  • most depreciating,
  • most narrowing,
  • most weakening,
  • more quieting,
  • more narrowing,
  • more slowing,
  • most ebbing,
  • more ebbing,
  • most subsiding,
  • most wasting,
  • most quieting,
  • most dropping,
  • more weakening,
  • most plummeting,
  • sub siding,
  • more slackening,
  • more dwindling,
  • most slumping,
  • more dropping,
  • more plummeting,
  • more subsiding,
  • more declining,
  • more sagging,
  • more depreciating.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • waning,
  • lessening,
  • consolatory,
  • extenuating,
  • fading away,
  • Succoring,
  • shriveling up,
  • health-giving,
  • dying down,
  • losing momentum,
  • freeing,
  • heartwarming,
  • heart-warming,
  • slackening.
  •relaxing (adjective)
  • lenient,
  • Emulsive,
  • pliable,
  • ductile,
  • malleable,
  • Mollient,
  • flaccid,
  • mollescent,
  • friable,
  • crumbly,
  • pianissimo.

• n.

  •appeasement (noun)
  • quellings,
  • mollifications,
  • quietings,
  • re conciliation,
  • accedings,
  • re-conciliation,
  • tranquilizations,
  • soothings,
  • re-conciliations,
  • quenchings,
  • bluntings,
  • lullings,
  • re conciliations,
  • propitiations.
  •demulcent (noun)
  • demulcent.
  •emollient (noun)
  • emollient.
  •encouragement (noun)
  • shot arm,
  • pro-motion,
  • shot the arm,
  • re assurance,
  • inspiritments,
  • re-assurance,
  • solacings,
  • shot in arm,
  • reassurings,
  • re-assurances,
  • enlivenings,
  • pro motions,
  • re assurances,
  • invigorations,
  • supportings,
  • relievings,
  • consolings.
  •euphemism (noun)
  • euphemism.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • rapprochement,
  • placation,
  • appeasement,
  • reassurances,
  • stimulus,
  • inspiritment,
  • Tranquilization,
  • invigoration,
  • placations,
  • easings,
  • propitiation,
  • shot in the arm,
  • relief,
  • encouragement,
  • mollification,
  • reassurance.
  •process (noun)
  • softening.
  •process to make softer (noun)
  • susurration,
  • undertone,
  • mollescence.
  •rapprochement (noun)
  • harmonization.
  •relief (noun)
  • extrications,
  • extrication,
  • lightenings,
  • load off one's mind,
  • palliatives,
  • restfulness.

• v.

  •blunting (verb)
  • Dulling,
  • desensitizing,
  • Blunting,
  • deadening,
  • diminishing.
  •cheering (verb)
  • comforting.
  •enfeebling (verb)
  • debilitating,
  • enfeebling,
  • weakening.
  •moderating (verb)
  • moderating,
  • cooling,
  • relaxing,
  • soothing,
  • abating,
  • tranquilizing,
  • Restraining,
  • Quieting,
  • Alleviating,
  • pacifying,
  • calming,
  • composing,
  • Subduing,
  • easing.
  •pacifying (verb)
  • quelling,
  • reconciling,
  • Allaying,
  • appeasing,
  • Mollifying,
  • ebbing,
  • Smoothing,
  • stabilizing,
  • lulling,
  • Hushing,
  • Relieving,
  • conciliating,
  • defusing,
  • Assuaging,
  • placating.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • mincing,
  • Humanizing,
  • paralysis,
  • collapse,
  • modulation,
  • limiting,
  • devitalization,
  • balmy,
  • deliverance,
  • Whitewashing,
  • refreshment,
  • Dulcifying,
  • Breaching,
  • Subverting,
  • purgative,
  • activity,
  • offending,
  • release,
  • attrition,
  • sabotaging,
  • anesthesia,
  • restrictive,
  • diminution,
  • falling off,
  • decontamination,
  • Relenting,
  • bettering,
  • dissolving,
  • palsy,
  • remedial,
  • emasculation,
  • impair,
  • rendering,
  • dilution,
  • clement,
  • apoplexy,
  • erupting,
  • analgesic,
  • gentle,
  • chastening,
  • moistening,
  • easement,
  • moving,
  • abate,
  • laxation,
  • Taming,
  • color,
  • Modifying,
  • Effemination,
  • Excusing,
  • reduce,
  • sweetening,
  • bounding,
  • mitigate,
  • enervate,
  • Collapsing,
  • inanition,
  • Sideration,
  • thawing,
  • lullaby,
  • Naturalizing,
  • Pausing,
  • slacken,
  • soft,
  • relax,
  • Qualificative,
  • mellowing,
  • foundering,
  • aid,
  • failing,
  • promotion,
  • curbing,
  • ruining,
  • letup,
  • mild,
  • Damping,
  • anesthetizing,
  • natural process,
  • Benumbing,
  • quietening,
  • anodyne,
  • cushioning,
  • gilding,
  • Macerating,
  • Bumping,
  • subdue,
  • stifling,
  • Dulcification,
  • padding,
  • alleviation,
  • assuasive,
  • natural action,
  • Attenuating,
  • Chairing,
  • action,
  • mitigative,
  • extenuative,
  • soften,
  • Cultivating,
  • revealing,
  • rest,
  • wear,
  • anesthetic,
  • lightening,
  • break,
  • whitewash,
  • assistance,
  • Bankrupting,
  • abatement,
  • Stilling,
  • Muffling,
  • letdown,
  • maceration,
  • Demulsion,
  • reduction,
  • respite,
  • busting,
  • Generating,
  • modulatory,
  • buffering,
  • comfort,
  • remedy,
  • Separating,
  • Modificatory,
  • melt,
  • varnish,
  • washing,
  • imparting,
  • palliation,
  • Extenuatory,
  • cracking,
  • loosening,
  • cathartic,
  • Violating,
  • annealed,
  • debilitation,
  • gloss,
  • Discovering,
  • disclosing,
  • numbing,
  • mollify,
  • bland,
  • Divulging,
  • Allayment,
  • assuage,
  • Exposing,
  • extenuation,
  • mitigation,
  • recrudescing,
  • remission,
  • cleansing,
  • leniency,
  • touching,
  • Varnishing,
  • Declaring,
  • syncope,
  • prostration,
  • qualifying,
  • evisceration,
  • Interrupting,
  • Deliquium,
  • allay,
  • pacification,
  • salving,
  • soften up,
  • lowering,
  • Muting,
  • Discontinuing,
  • fatigue,
  • attenuation,
  • relaxation,
  • restricting,
  • Palliating,
  • Demoting,
  • Mashing,
  • naturalising,
  • enervation,
  • palliate,
  • cutting up,
  • deafening,
  • enfeeblement,
  • ease,
  • helplessness,
  • undermine,
  • limitative,
  • Granting,
  • analgesia,
  • controlling,
  • domesticating,
  • Diminishment,
  • mitigatory,
  • solace,
  • parting,
  • dying,
  • returning,
  • Mitigating,
  • Intermitting,
  • Counteracting,
  • Subduement,
  • dampening,
  • Containing,
  • weaken,
  • consolation,
  • qualificatory,
  • orchiotomy,
  • incentive,
  • exhaustion,
  • qualification,
  • depress,
  • altering,
  • pain-killing,
  • deaden,
  • Fracturing,
  • loosen,
  • lessen,
  • stopping,
  • water softening,
  • allowance,
  • relegating,
  • Affording,
  • fail,
  • wear out,
  • assuagement,
  • Checking,
  • decreasing,
  • thinning,
  • orchotomy,
  • tempering,
  • Languishment,
  • conceding,
  • developing,
  • Terminating,
  • alleviative,
  • extenuating circumstances,
  • happening,
  • Succumbing,
  • Transgressing,
  • ceding.

Paraphrases for Softening:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deflection, dilution, facilitation, flexibility, lessening, liberalisation, liberalization, loosening, mitigation, reduction, slowing, Mitigating, liberalising.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    abating, ameliorating, commuting, cushioning, cutting, dampening, declining, decreasing, defusing, diminishing, dropping, dwindling, eroding, falling, lessening, loosening, moderating, reducing, slashing, slowing, soothing, stretching, waning, yielding, Allaying, Assuaging, Attenuating, Dimming, Mediating, Mitigating, Remedying, Smoothing, minimizing, liberalising, minimising.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    alleviation, attenuation, decline, easing, moderation, relaxation, relaxing, slowdown, weakening, slow-down, slowing-down, flexibilisation, flexibilization.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    easing, lightening, relaxing, weakening, Alleviating.

Antonyms for Softening:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    hard.

Homophones for Softening:

• spitting, subduedness, sapidness, subheading, shiftiness, spotting, sputnik, swiftness, speeding, sea bathing, subtonic, sweptwing, shifting, Speediness, sifting, spouting, soft news, softness, subatomic.

Hypernym for Softening:

• n.

  • process
    maceration.

Hyponym for Softening:

• n.

  • process
    natural process, action, activity, natural action.