deintensification

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ intensification.

Noun

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.