What is the opposite of detriment?

[nq:1]What is the opposite of detriment?[/nq]
benefit

[nq:1]What is the opposite of detriment?[/nq]
If you're serious, about this question, it's "benefit".
[nq:1]Attriment? Protriment? Intriment? And what is contrement, bitrement, polytrement,and antidistrement? Why are there so many words without meanings? Shouldn't someone do something about that?[/nq]
But this makes me suspect that you aren't serious.

To expand on why I think that you aren't serious, you appear to be starting from the assumption that 'detriment' is a combination of the prefix 'de': to undo, and 'trement' (whatever you presume 'trement' to be or mean.). It's not.
It's from the Latin 'detrimentum' (a loss, injury or damage) and 'detrimentosus' (injurious, hurtful). Both of these appear to be from the stem word 'detero', to ru

[nq:2]What is the opposite of detriment?[/nq]
[nq:1]If you're serious, about this question, it's "benefit".[/nq]
[nq:2]Attriment? Protriment? Intriment?[/nq]
I'm sort of serious. Why aren't there other words from the same root as detriment with different prefixes? Why isn't there a direct opposite of detriment made from the same root?
OK, you're right, triment is not a root. But de

[nq:1]What is the opposite of detriment? Attriment? Protriment? Intriment? And what is contrement, bitrement, polytrement,and antidistrement? Why are there so many words without meanings? Shouldn't someone do something about that?[/nq]
I think it would be improvement.
Detriment is one of those words which looks like an antonym but is not.

Someone on the web, I think her name was G

[nq:1]Detriment is one of those words which looks like an antonym but is not. Someone on the web, I think ... and "Ert", being the nantonyms of "Decrepit", Disturbed", and "Inert". Using Gaby's logic, the nantonym of "Detriment" would be "Trement".[/nq]
"Triment", surely?

Cheers, Harvey
CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed

[nq:1]What is the opposite of detriment? Attriment? Protriment? Intriment?[/nq]
Nutriment.
[nq:1]And what is contrement, bitrement, polytrement,and antidistrement? Why are there so many words without meanings? Shouldn't someone do something about that?[/nq]
Yes.
Thanks,
Don

What's the opposite of congress?
Thanks for the opportunity to post,
Rachel

[nq:1]What is the opposite of detriment? Attriment? Protriment? Intriment? And what is contrement, bitrement, polytrement,and antidistrement? Why are there so many words without meanings? Shouldn't someone do something about that? If you are inclined to email me for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)[/nq]
Asset.

[nq:1]What's the opposite of congress?[/nq]
Congror. Or possibly Antiguaress.
[nq:1]Thanks for the opportunity to post, Rachel[/nq]
Dave "we'll be here all week" Delaney

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