deintensification

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

de- +‎ intensification

Noun[edit]

deintensification (usually uncountable, plural deintensifications)

  1. The process of something becoming less intense.
    • 2015 November 6, Paula Span, “Some Older Patients Are Treated Not Wisely, but Too Much”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Yet a large national study by Dr. Sussman and his colleagues, published last month in JAMA Internal Medicine, reveals how rarely deintensification occurs among patients over age 70.
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