Other forms: relaxations
Relaxation is letting body and mind go loose. Deep relaxation, relaxation techniques, a moment of relaxation.
Progressive muscle relaxation, tensing and releasing each group in turn, is one of the few techniques with solid evidence behind it, and it works partly by showing you how much tension you were holding. The word also means the loosening of a rule.
1nounrelaxationLetting body and mind go loose.
“For relaxation, she likes to lie in a warm bath with a good book.”
2nounlooseningThe loosening of a rule.
“Shop owners welcomed the relaxation of the laws on Sunday opening hours.”
relaxation is a loosening.
Latin relaxatio comes from relaxare, to loosen again — re- plus laxus, loose. Lax and release are relatives.
Latin
relaxatio
English, today
relaxation
Borrowed from Latin relaxatio; equivalent to relax + ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA