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ACCEPTANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of taking something that is offered
Example:
he anticipated their acceptance of his offer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("acceptance" is a kind of...):
acquisition (the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something)
Derivation:
accept (receive willingly something given or offered)
acceptant (accepting willingly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
Example:
the proposal found wide acceptance
Synonyms:
acceptance; acceptation; adoption; espousal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("acceptance" is a kind of...):
approval; approving; blessing (the formal act of approving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acceptance"):
bosom; embrace (a close affectionate and protective acceptance)
Derivation:
accept (react favorably to; consider right and proper)
acceptant (accepting willingly)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
Example:
all people should practice toleration and live together in peace
Synonyms:
acceptance; sufferance; toleration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("acceptance" is a kind of...):
permissiveness; tolerance (a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acceptance"):
self acceptance (an acceptance of yourself as you are, warts and all)
Derivation:
accept (tolerate or accommodate oneself to)
acceptant (accepting willingly)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
Example:
acceptance of Newtonian mechanics was unquestioned for 200 years
Synonyms:
acceptance; credence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("acceptance" is a kind of...):
attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acceptance"):
fatalism (a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable)
recognition (an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid)
Derivation:
accept (consider or hold as true)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("acceptance" is a kind of...):
acquiescence; assent (agreement with a statement or proposal to do something)
Domain category:
contract law (that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Banking: a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank
Synonyms:
acceptance; banker's acceptance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("acceptance" is a kind of...):
bill of exchange; draft; order of payment (a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another)
Sense 7
Meaning:
The state of being acceptable and accepted
Example:
torn jeans received no acceptance at the country club
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("acceptance" is a kind of...):
situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acceptance"):
vogue (a current state of general acceptance and use)
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition (the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged)
approval; favorable reception; favourable reception (acceptance as satisfactory)
acceptation (acceptance as true or valid)
content; contentedness (the state of being contented with your situation in life)
acquiescence (acceptance without protest)
welcome (the state of being welcome)
Antonym:
rejection (the state of being rejected)
Derivation:
accept (react favorably to; consider right and proper)
Context examples:
The study tested the link between emotional acceptance and psychological health in more than 1,300 adults.
(Embracing Darker Moods Makes You Feel Better, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Altogether, AAT may attenuate acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) and may facilitate graft acceptance and survival.
(Alpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor Human, NCI Thesaurus)
Acceptance as satisfactory by an authoritative body; established by authority; given authoritative approval.
(Approval, NCI Thesaurus)
Her acceptance must be as certain as his offer; and yet there were bad feelings still remaining which made the prospect of it most sorrowful to her, independently, she believed, independently of self.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Everything honourable and soothing, every present enjoyment, and every future hope was contained in it; and her acceptance, with only the saving clause of Papa and Mamma's approbation, was eagerly given.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Demi paused to consider the new relationship before he compromised himself by the rash acceptance of a bribe, which took the tempting form of a family of wooden bears from Berne.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She smiled her acceptance; and nothing less than a summons from Richmond was to take him back before the following evening.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
What could I do but bow acceptance?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mrs. Gardiner looked at her niece, desirous of knowing how she, whom the invitation most concerned, felt disposed as to its acceptance, but Elizabeth had turned away her head.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
His frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and firmness.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
