Word Meanings - SOFTENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Soften, v. Softening of the brain, or Cerebral softening , a localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation. Three varieties, distinguished by their color and representing different stages of the morbid process,

Additional info about word: SOFTENING

from Soften, v. Softening of the brain, or Cerebral softening , a localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation. Three varieties, distinguished by their color and representing different stages of the morbid process, are known respectively as red, yellow, and white, softening.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOFTENING)

• Demulcent
• Soothing
• softening
• allaying
• lenitive
• Emollient
• Softening
• laxative
• balsamic

Related words: (words related to SOFTENING)

• LENITIVE
  Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.
• SOOTH
  soth, AS. s, for san; akin to OS. s, OHG. sand, Icel. sannr, Sw. sann, Dan. sand, Skr. sat, sant, real, genuine, present, being; properly p. pr. from a root meaning, to be, Skr. as, L. esse; also akin to Goth. sunjis true, Gr. satya. Absent, Am,
• SOOTHNESS
  Truth; reality. Chaucer.
• LENITIVENESS
  The quality of being lenitive.
• SOOTHLY
  In truth; truly; really; verily. "Soothly for to say." Chaucer.
• SOOTHSAY
  1. A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy. Spenser. 2. Omen; portent. Having God turn the same to good soothsay. Spenser.
• SOOTHINGLY
  In a soothing manner.
• ALLAY
  to, AS. alecgan; a- + lecgan to lay; but confused with old forms of allege, alloy, alegge. 1. To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.
• SOOTHE
  1. To assent to as true. Testament of Love. 2. To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter. Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. Shak. I've tried the
• SOOTHING
  from Soothe, v.
• ALLAYMENT
  An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.
• ALLAYER
  One who, or that which, allays.
• LAXATIVENESS
  The quality of being laxative.
• DEMULCENT
  Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.
• LAXATIVE
  Having the effect of loosening or opening the intestines, and relieving from constipation; -- opposed to astringent. -- n. (more info) 1. Having a tendency to loosen or relax. Milton.
• SOFTEN
  To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.
• SOFTENING
  from Soften, v. Softening of the brain, or Cerebral softening , a localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation. Three varieties, distinguished by their color and representing different stages of the morbid process,
• SOOTHER
  One who, or that which, soothes.
• EMOLLIENT
  An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• FORSOOTH
  In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been
• REMOLLIENT
  Mollifying; softening.
• SPLENITIVE
  Splenetic. Shak. Even and smooth as seemed the temperament of the nonchalant, languid Virginian -- not splenitive or rash. T. N. Page.