The saving grace is the good thing that redeems, or saves, a negative experience. The original meaning, and one still used today, is religious: God's grace or blessing, especially when it's granted suddenly and "saves" a sinner.

What is considered a saving grace?

English Language Learners Definition of saving grace

: a good quality that makes a bad or unpleasant person or thing better or more acceptable.

What is a saving grace synonym?

Saving-grace synonyms

In this page you can discover 7 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for saving-grace, like: redeeming feature, state-of-grace, grace, extenuative, good point, point of character and palliative.