Acquiescence

Noun

 * 1) A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
 * 2)  Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.

Adjectives for Acquiescence
stolid; tepid; agreeable; sullen; silent; dignified; polite; craven; unanimous; wise; courageous; phlegmatic; grumbling; delighted; tacit; stupid; amiable; passive; desperate; compulsory; candid; reluctant; fatalistic; cheerful; complacent; grudging; grim.

Verbs for Acquiescence
arrive at -; attain -; draw into -; signify -; soften into -; urge -; wheedle into -;

Thesaurus
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; okay; orthodoxy; passive resistance; passiveness; passivity; permission; pliability; pliancy; promptitude; promptness; 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; OK; Quakerism; 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;

Etymology
Compare French acquiescence:.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"{k.wi:.Es.@ns/}}

Related terms

 * acquiesce

Translations

 * Polish: potulność, przyzwolenie


 * Spanish:, consentimiento