'acquiescence' definitions:
Definition of 'acquiescence'
(from WordNet)
noun
Acceptance without protest
noun
Agreement with a statement or proposal to do something; "he gave his assent eagerly"; "a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly" [syn: assent, acquiescence]
Synonyms of 'acquiescence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acceptance,
- acceptation,
- acception,
- accession,
- accommodation,
- accord,
- accordance,
- adaptation,
- adaption,
- adjustment,
- affirmation,
- affirmative,
- affirmative voice,
- agreeability,
- agreeableness,
- agreement,
- agreement in principle,
- alacrity,
- allegiance,
- amenability,
- approbation,
- approval,
- ardor,
- assent,
- assentation,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- aye,
- belief,
- blessing,
- certainty,
- cheerful consent,
- complaisance,
- compliance,
- concurrence,
- confidence,
- conformance,
- conformation other-direction,
- conformity,
- congruity,
- connivance,
- consent,
- consistency,
- conventionality,
- cooperativeness,
- correspondence,
- credence,
- credit,
- credulity,
- deference,
- dependence,
- docility,
- duteousness,
- dutifulness,
- eagerness,
- endorsement,
- enthusiasm,
- faith,
- favorable disposition,
- favorableness,
- fealty,
- flexibility,
- forwardness,
- gameness,
- general agreement,
- goodwill,
- harmony,
- hearty assent,
- homage,
- hope,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- keeping,
- kneeling,
- line,
- loyalty,
- malleability,
- meekness,
- nonopposal,
- nonopposition,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolent resistance,
- obedience,
- obediency,
- obeisance,
- observance,
- OK,
- okay,
- orthodoxy,
- passive resistance,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- permission,
- pliability,
- pliancy,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- Quakerism,
- quietism,
- ratification,
- readiness,
- reception,
- receptive mood,
- receptiveness,
- receptivity,
- reconcilement,
- reconciliation,
- reliance,
- reliance on,
- resignation,
- resignedness,
- responsiveness,
- right mood,
- sanction,
- service,
- servility,
- servitium,
- stock,
- store,
- strictness,
- subjection,
- submission,
- submissiveness,
- submittal,
- suit and service,
- suit service,
- supineness,
- support,
- sureness,
- surety,
- suspension of disbelief,
- tractability,
- traditionalism,
- trust,
- uncomplainingness,
- ungrudgingness,
- uniformity,
- unloathness,
- unreluctance,
- warm assent,
- welcome,
- willing ear,
- willing heart,
- willingness,
- yielding,
- zeal,
- zealousness