Other forms: acceptances
Acceptance is agreeing to take something, or to believe it. Saying yes to the offer, or making peace with the news.
The word splits three ways. There is the practical one, as in acceptance of a job or acceptance into a university. There is the intellectual one, where a theory wins acceptance among scientists. And there is the emotional one, which is the hardest — acceptance of a diagnosis, of a death, of something that cannot now be changed. That last sense is why acceptance is named as the final stage in the familiar model of grief.
1nounacceptanceThe act of agreeing to receive or take something.
“We are still waiting for his acceptance of the offer.”
2nounwillingnessWillingness to believe something, or to come to terms with it.
“She reached a kind of acceptance in the end.”
Proto-Indo-European
*kap-
Old French
accepter
Middle French
acceptance
English, today
acceptance
Borrowed from Middle French acceptance, from Old French accepter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove, Word Building
First appears in chapter 34 of A Man Called Ove.
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