acquiescence
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8.5
- noun
- /ˌakwēˈesəns/
:
aceptación resignada
- Her acquiescence to the new policy surprised her colleagues.
- reluctant acquiescence
- military acquiescence
- political acquiescence
Tyrannies happen because of the population's acquiescence to tyranny.
- Tyrannies happen because of the population's acquiescence to tyranny.
- It's the same is because the many give their power to the few in the form of acquiescence.
- I think the one I have trouble balancing the most is people who respond to acquiescence versus people to it who respond to more aggressive personalities.
Examples
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You need my permission, my help, my acquiescence, or you don't have a story.
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" Valerie waits, not eagerly but with the acquiescence she knows he expects.
Fiction book (1996) -
We cannot, we will not leave a legacy of acquiescence!
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Are their decisions binding, or is acquiescence in them merely voluntary?
Academic text (1993) -
As Chateaubriand said, the state rests upon the acquiescence of the poor.
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Tyrannies happen because of the population's acquiescence to tyranny.
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International poverty and inequality thus support and reinforce acquiescence to substandard housing and employment conditions.
Academic text (2017) -
The reluctant acquiescence of employers might reflect anxiety to retain employees with 'mid-level skills':
Academic text (2015) -
Under circumstances where there is no opportunity for rejecting, acquiescence cannot be presumed to arise from silence.
Academic text (1991) -
There was an unbroken glint of satisfaction hiding somehow behind her bland acquiescence, her servile tone.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
361
1.0
A situation in which people have the same opinion or give their approval
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2.9
Willingness to be friendly to people and ideas that are different
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5.1
Saying you accept a point or a demand so talks can continue
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4.2
Accepting an unpleasant situation without trying to change it
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6.8
A formal agreement that allows a plan or law to go ahead
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8.3
Giving up in a fight or war under agreed terms
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8.4
Agreeing to a request or demand, often reluctantly
An act of ending an argument by accepting the other person's view
Admitting you have lost or accepting that others are right
Antonyms
How Accepting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Acquiescence comes from the old Latin parts ad- meaning 'to' and quiescere meaning 'become quiet', and the same root is in the English word quiet. So acquiescence is like becoming 'quiet' about something — accepting it without protest.