solatium
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- A form of compensation for emotional rather than physical or financial harm.
- Intangible or emotional compensation.“"But Italian cabmen who are engaged by the hour regard the long waits beneath shady trees as a solatium for the reduced fare." C. Lewis Hind, The Education of an Artist (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906, page 160).”