adience

9.9

A natural wish to move toward or try things instead of avoiding them

noun
/ˈeɪdiəns/

Specialized

: adiencia

Therapy can help balance adience and avoidance behaviors.

Examples

Children with strong adience are eager to explore new environments.
People with high adience often embrace change.
The psychologist explained that adience plays a key role in social interactions.
His adience towards new experiences is remarkable.
Children with strong adience are eager to explore new environments.
The psychologist explained that adience plays a key role in social interactions.
People with high adience often embrace change.

Synonyms

amenability

vsadience

Formal

1 6.8

A willingness to cooperate and accept suggestions

is an internal urge to approach or accept rather than avoid

appetence

vsadience

1 9.9

A strong desire to have or do something

is a general tendency to approach or accept rather than craving

Antonyms

avoidance

40 3.7

Keeping away from something or stopping it from happening

abience

Specialized

9.9

An urge to avoid people, places, or things that feel unpleasant

How Approach-Oriented

seeking

15 2.9

adience

Specialized

9.9

motivation

339 2.7

neutrality

24 4.4

avoidance

40 3.7

Surface Forms

adience singular

adiences plural

Etymology

The word adience can be remembered by thinking of the start ad- meaning 'to' and the familiar word advance, which means to move forward. So adience is like an inner push to move toward or accept something, rather than avoid it.