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Remission vs Reflection - What's the difference?

remission | reflection |

As nouns the difference between remission and reflection

is that remission is remission while reflection is the act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.

remission

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
  • A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
  • (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
  • Her cancer was in remission .
  • (legal) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior ) court of law.
  • See also

    * (medicine) relapse * reemission

    Anagrams

    * ----

    reflection

    English

    Alternative forms

    * reflexion

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
  • The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
  • Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
  • (senseid) Careful thought or consideration.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections .}}
  • An implied criticism.
  • (label) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
  • Derived terms

    * reflectional * reflectionless * self-reflection

    See also

    * refraction * diffraction