solatium

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A form of compensation for emotional rather than physical or financial harm.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)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).”