Melioration

[,mi:ljә'reiʃәn]

(noun.) the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning.

Typist: Louis--From WordNet

(n.) The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.

Typed by Greta

n. Improvement, amendment, emendation, amelioration.

Edited by Flo