mediation
- 01 C2 Proficiency
the act of helping two different ideas, groups, or things work together or understand each other.
the action of acting as an intermediary or link between two different states, ideas, or entities.
Simple“The teacher's mediation helped the students understand the difficult text.”
In context“The philosopher explored the mediation between individual freedom and the collective requirements of a functioning state.”
UsageCommonly followed by the preposition 'between'.
Synonyms
“He credited Qatar with playing an important role in mediation efforts to halt fighting in the region.”
“In July, the African Union’s special envoy to Sudan, Mohamed Belaiche, discussed the political and security situation in Khartoum, African mediation efforts and the reopening of the African Union’s office in the capital.”
From Middle English mediacion, mediacioun, medyacion, medyacyoun from Middle French mediacion and its etymon Late Latin mediātiō, from mediārī (“intervene”), from Latin medius (“middle”). By surface analysis, mediate + -ion.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.