Definition of remission

• n. - The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
• n. - Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
• n. - Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
• 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. - The act of sending back.
• n. - Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.