subsidence
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7.4
- noun
- /səbˈsaɪdəns/
- Specialized
:
remisión
Examples
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Perhaps it was his mood, but London seemed to Hastings that winter peculiarly prone to such subsidence.
Fiction book (1994) -
Their barely hidden goal is de-industrialization and regression, ultimately to subsidence.
Blog text (2) -
In an article in Harper's, he says that the cost of land subsidence caused by aquifer depletion in the United States is about $400 million each year.
Academic text (2000) -
The type's use has subsided in the modern era, perhaps for reasons related to the same diminished sense of the sublime that has attended the subsidence of the epic.
Academic text (2011) -
The doctor noted a significant subsidence in the patient's symptoms after starting the new medication.
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After weeks of treatment, there was a noticeable subsidence in her allergy symptoms, allowing her to enjoy the outdoors again.
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The subsidence of the patient's fever gave the doctor hope that the treatment was effective.
Synonyms
41
6.4
A time when disease symptoms become less or go away
1
6.0
A gradual decrease in size or strength
A decrease in the strength of disease symptoms
Antonyms
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
subsidence = subside (transparent) = sub + sid + ence
The noun is directly formed from the verb 'subside' with the nominalizing suffix '-ence', and the meaning (a reduction or lessening) is predictable from the verb.
Etymology
Subsidence comes from the Latin parts sub- 'under' and sidere 'to sit'. Think of something 'sitting down' or 'settling', like pain that 'settles' and becomes less, and that's why subsidence can mean a 'lessening' of symptoms.