A condition or period in which something is remitted. 2. A lessening of intensity or degree; abatement. 3. a. Medicine Abatement or subsiding of the symptoms of a disease. b. The period during which the symptoms of a disease abate or subside. 4. a. Release, as from a debt, penalty, or obligation. b. Forgiveness; pardon.

Remission. (n.) Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance. (n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up. (n.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement. (n.)

Synonyms for REMISSION: forgiveness, amnesty, pardon, immunity, absolution, remittal, parole, exoneration; Antonyms of REMISSION: punishment, penalty, sentence, retribution, conviction, assessment, charge, imposition