Mitigation vs. Remediation

Mitigationnoun

A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.

Mitigationnoun

The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.

Mitigationnoun

to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

Mitigationnoun

a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

Remediationnoun

The process of remedying a situation.

Remediationnoun

act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil