<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>The act of remitting.</li><li>Pardon; forgiveness, as of sins or offenses.</li><li>Abatement or diminution, as of diligence, labor, intensity, etc.</li><li>The relinquishment of a payment, obligation, etc.</li><li>Medicine/Medical: a temporary or permanent decrease or subsidence of manifestations of a disease.</li><li>A period during which such a decrease or subsidence occurs: The patient's leukemia was in remission.</li><li>Temporary abrogation or withholding, as of a law, privilege, decision, belief, etc.</li><li>Stoppage of payment of debts or claims because of financial inability or insolvency.</li></ul>