Other forms: admittances
Admittance is the right to go in. No admittance, gain admittance, refuse admittance.
It is the physical right of entry, and no admittance is what the sign says. Admission is the commoner word and covers both entry and confession, so a museum charges admission and a court hears an admission — admittance does neither.
1nounadmittanceThe right to go in.
“The guard at the gate would not grant us admittance without a pass.”
admittance is a right.
From admit plus -ance, from Latin admittere, to let in — ad plus mittere, to send.
Proto-Indo-European
*mey- (change)
Latin
admittō — to allow entrance, inlet
Old French
admettre
Middle English
admitten
English
admit
English, today
admittance
Built from
From admit + ance. Q214518 was coined by Q154345 in 1887. admit comes from Middle English admitten, amitten, borrowed from Old French admettre, amettre (“to admit”), from Latin admittō (“to allow entrance, inlet”) literally “to send to”, from ad- + mittere (“to send”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA