What is another word for acceptation?

Pronunciation: [ɐksɪptˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

"Acceptation" is a relatively uncommon word, but it can be useful to know synonyms for it. One synonym for "acceptation" is "acceptance," which is more commonly used and refers to the act of accepting something or someone. Another synonym is "understanding," which can refer to the interpretation or comprehension of something. "Acknowledgment" is another synonym, which conveys the sense of recognizing or admitting the truth or validity of something. "Approval" is also a synonym, suggesting a positive evaluation or endorsement of something. Lastly, "adoption" can also be used as a synonym, implying the act of taking something or someone into one's own life or realm of concern.

Synonyms for Acceptation:

What are the hypernyms for Acceptation?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Acceptation?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for acceptation (as nouns)

Usage examples for Acceptation

Malta is considered to be self-supporting, in the political acceptation of the term, so far as England is concerned.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
As the adage of the "gift horse" is of tolerably general acceptation, I eat and was thankful, mingling my acknowledgments from time to time with some questions about the owners of the mansion, concerning whom I could not help feeling curious.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
But this is not true according to their acceptation of the term.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant

Famous quotes with Acceptation

  • The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
    Charles Babbage
  • It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
    Matthew Henry
  • "The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that "myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations." It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • It has been said of compliments, that men are most flattered by having the merits attributed to them which they least possess; but as it is only by liars that such compliments can be proffered, so it is only with fools that they can find a favourable acceptation.
    Henry Taylor
  • The Art of a well-developed genius is far different from the Artfulness of the Understanding, of the merely reasoning mind.They are emblematic, have many meanings, are simple and inexhaustible, like products of Nature; and nothing more unsuitable could be said of them than that they are works of Art, in that narrow mechanical acceptation of the word.
    William Shakespeare

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