betterment

betterment
    n 1: a change for the better; progress in development [syn:
         {improvement}, {betterment}, {advance}]
    2: an improvement that adds to the value of a property or
       facility
    3: the act of relieving ills and changing for the better [syn:
       {amelioration}, {melioration}, {betterment}]
    

Betterment \Bet"ter*ment\, n.
   1. A making better; amendment; improvement. --W. Montagu.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Law) An improvement of an estate which renders it better
      than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the
      plural. [U. S.] --Bouvier.
      [1913 Webster]
    

91 Moby Thesaurus words for "betterment":
      Great Leap Forward, about-face, accommodation, adaptation,
      adjustment, advance, advancement, alteration, amelioration,
      amendment, apostasy, ascent, bettering, boost, break, change,
      change of heart, changeableness, constructive change, continuity,
      conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change,
      deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, divergence,
      diversification, diversion, diversity, enhancement, enrichment,
      eugenics, euthenics, fitting, flip-flop, furtherance,
      gradual change, headway, improvement, lift, melioration, mend,
      mending, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, pickup,
      preferment, progress, progression, promotion, qualification,
      radical change, re-creation, realignment, recovery, redesign,
      reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restoration,
      restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, rise,
      shift, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn,
      turnabout, upbeat, upheaval, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend,
      upward mobility, variation, variety, violent change, worsening