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acceptance - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | acceptance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, taking |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, approval, assent, compliance, consent, cooperation, getting, go-ahead*, green light*, nod*, okay, permission, receipt, receiving, reception, recognition, securing, undertaking, yes, accepting, acquiring, gaining, obtaining, taking on |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissent, refusal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acceptance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in goodness of something |
| Synonyms: | accession, acknowledgment, acquiescence, admission, adoption, affirmation, agreement, approbation, approval, assent, concession, concurrence, favor, recognition, accedence, seal of approval |
| Antonyms: | disbelief |
| Main Entry: | acquiescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reluctant agreement |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, approval, assent, compliance, concurrence, conformity, consent, obedience, permission, resignation, submission, yielding, giving in, submissiveness |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, insubordination, rebellion |
| Main Entry: | assent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, accord, acknowledgment, acquiescence, admission, affirmation, approval, authorization, compliance, concurrence, consent, nod, permission, sanction |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissent, rejection |
| Main Entry: | belonging |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sense of security in friendship |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, affinity, association, attachment, inclusion, kinship, loyalty, rapport, relationship |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, insecurity |
| Main Entry: | confirmation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ratification, validation, proof |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accord, admission, affirmation, agreement, approval, assent, authorization, avowal, consent, endorsement, evidence, go ahead*, green light*, nod, okay, passage, passing, proving, recognition, sanction, substantiation, support, supporting, testament, testimonial, testimony, verification, verifying, witness, accepting, affirming, attestation, authenticating, authentication, authorizing, corroborating, corroboration, sanctioning, stamp of approval, validating, visa |
| Antonyms: | annulment, cancellation, contradiction, denial, destruction, opposition, veto, void |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enrollment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | registration for membership |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, admission, conscription, engagement, enlistment, entrance, entry, induction, influx, matriculation, rally, reception, record, response, subscription, listing, recruitment, student body, students |
| Main Entry: | fatalism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resignation to a fate |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, predestination, stoicism, destinism, determinism, necessitarianism, passivity, predestinarianism |
| Main Entry: | nod |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gesture of the head |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acknowledgment, affirmative, beckon, bow, dip, greeting, inclination, indication, permission, salute, sign, signal, yes |
| Main Entry: | okay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, affirmation, approbation, approval, assent, authorization, benediction, blessing, consent, endorsement, favor, go-ahead*, green light*, permission, sanction, yes, ok, say-so, seal of approval |
| Antonyms: | denial, disagreement, refusal, veto |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | permission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authorization, consent |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acknowledgment, acquiescence, admission, agreement, allowance, approbation, approval, assent, avowal, carte blanche*, concession, concurrence, dispensation, endorsement, freedom, imprimatur, indulgence, leave, liberty, license, okay, permit, privilege, promise, recognition, rubber stamp*, sanction, tolerance, verification, warrant, canonization, condonance, condonation, empowerment, letting, sanctification, stamp of approval, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | denial, prohibition, veto |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | popularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recognition, celebrity |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acclaim, adoration, approval, currency, demand, esteem, fame, fashion, favor, following, heyday, prevalence, regard, renown, reputation, vogue, fashionableness, idolization, lionization, repute, universality |
| Antonyms: | dislike, unpopularity |
| Main Entry: | usage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | habit, custom |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, control, convention, currency, form, formula, handling, management, matter of course, method, mode, operation, practice, praxis, procedure, regime, regulation, rote, routine, rule, running, tradition, treatment, trick, use, way, wont, habitude |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| Main Entry: | welcome |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greeting |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, entertainment, entrée, friendliness, hello, hospitality, ovation, reception, red carpet*, rumble*, salutation, salute, tumble*, handshake, howdy, key to the city |
| Antonyms: | goodbye |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subscription |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consent |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, agreement, approval, contribution, dues, pledge, support |
| Main Entry: | acknowledgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | act of recognizing authority or truth of something |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, acquiescence, admission, affirmation, allowance, assent, assertion, avowal, compliance, concession, concurrence, confession, confirmation, declaration, profession, ratification, realization, recognition, yielding, admitting, allowing, asservation, conceding, corroboration |
| Main Entry: | admission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entering or allowing entry |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, access, admittance, confirmation, designation, door, entrance, entree, ingress, initiation, introduction, permission, reception, recognition, way, welcome, certification |
| Antonyms: | denial, exclusion, expulsion, refusal |
| Main Entry: | adoption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | choosing or taking something as one's own |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, approbation, appropriation, approval, assumption, choice, confirmation, enactment, endorsement, following, maintenance, ratification, selection, support, embracement, embracing, espousal, taking on, taking over, taking up |
| Antonyms: | pass, rejection, repudiation |
| Main Entry: | assumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking something for granted; something expected |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, assuming, belief, conjecture, expectation, fancy, guess, hunch, hypothesis, inference, postulate, premise, presumption, shot*, shot in the dark*, stab, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theory, accepting, posit, postulation, presupposition, sneaking suspicion, supposal, theorization |
| Antonyms: | doubt, unexpected |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | belief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | putting regard in as true |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, admission, assent, assumption, assurance, avowal, axiom, certainty, conclusion, confidence, conjecture, conviction, credence, credit, deduction, divination, expectation, faith, fancy, feeling, guess, hope, hypothesis, idea, impression, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, presumption, profession, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, trust, understanding, view, mindset, postulation, presupposition |
| Antonyms: | disbelief |
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