SALVATION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SALVATION?

Need another word that means the same as “salvation”? Find 9 synonyms and 30 related words for “salvation” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Salvation” are: redemption, lifeline, preservation, conservation, means of escape, deliverance, saving, help, reclamation

Salvation as a Noun

Definitions of "Salvation" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “salvation” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Deliverance from sin and its consequences, believed by Christians to be brought about by faith in Christ.
• A means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness.
• A source or means of being saved from harm, ruin, or loss.
• The state of being saved or preserved from harm.
• Saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation.
• Preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss.
• The act of delivering from sin or saving from evil.
• (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil.

Synonyms of "Salvation" as a noun (9 Words)

conservation	The maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations. The government must take action to promote energy conservation.
deliverance	Recovery or preservation from loss or danger. The low drawl he employed for such deliverances.
help	The action of helping someone to do something. Offered his help in unloading.
lifeline	A thing on which someone or something depends or which provides a means of escape from a difficult situation. Fertility treatment can seem like a lifeline to childless couples.
means of escape	An instrumentality for accomplishing some end.
preservation	The activity of protecting something from loss or danger. The preservation of the city s green spaces.
reclamation	The process of claiming something back or of reasserting a right. A land reclamation project.
redemption	The action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt. Soldiers who were captured had to seek redemption.
saving	The activity of protecting something from loss or danger. The agents were cheating them out of their life savings.

Usage Examples of "Salvation" as a noun

• Tourism was their economic salvation.
• The Christian gospel of salvation for all mankind.
• The salvation of his party was the president's major concern.
• His only salvation was to outfly the enemy.
• They try to sell it to us as economic salvation.
• They turned to individualism as their salvation.

Associations of "Salvation" (30 Words)

apologetic	Offering or expressing apology. An apologetic smile.
atonement	The action of making amends for a wrong or injury. He submitted his resignation as an act of atonement.
baptism	A ceremony or occasion at which baptism takes place. The sacrament of baptism.
compunction	A feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed. They used their tanks without compunction.
confess	Confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed usually under pressure. I could not confess all my sins to the priest.
confession	The religious body or Church sharing a confession of faith. His words are a political confession of faith.
confessor	A person to whom another confides personal problems. If one prisoner confesses and implicates the other the confessor will go free as a reward.
contrite	Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses. A contrite tone.
contrition	(in the Roman Catholic Church) the repentance of past sins during or after confession. Prayers of contrition.
faith	Complete trust or confidence in someone or something. A member of his own faith contradicted him.
forgive	Stop blaming or grant forgiveness. I forgive you your debt.
mormon	A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
penance	Impose a penance on. He had done public penance for those hasty words.
penitence	The action of feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentance. A public display of penitence.
penitent	(in the Roman Catholic Church) a person who confesses their sins to a priest and submits to the penance that he imposes. A penitent expression.
redemption	A thing that saves someone from error or evil. Soldiers who were captured had to seek redemption.
regret	Express with regret. I regret I can t come to the party.
regretful	Feeling or showing regret. He sounded regretful but pointed out that he had committed himself.
remorse	Deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed. They were filled with remorse and shame.
remorseful	Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses. The defendant was remorseful for what he had done.
repent	Turn away from sin or do penitence. Marian came to repent her hasty judgement.
repentance	The action of repenting; sincere regret or remorse. Each person who turns to God in genuine repentance and faith will be saved.
repentant	Expressing or feeling sincere regret and remorse; remorseful. He is truly repentant for his incredible naivety and stupidity.
rescue	Keep from being lost or abandoned; retrieve. He came to our rescue with a loan of 100.
rue	Bitterly regret (something one has done or allowed to happen) and wish it undone. With rue my heart is laden.
rueful	Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses. She gave a rueful grin.
sacrament	A formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord’s Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction. He heard Mass and received the sacrament.
scruple	Raise scruples. Without scruple politicians use fear as a persuasion weapon.
sin	Commit a sin. I sinned and brought shame down on us.
sinner	A person who transgresses against divine law by committing an immoral act or acts. God forgives repentant sinners.