Other forms: rejections
Rejection is the refusal to accept somebody or something. A rejection letter, fear of rejection, meet with rejection.
Social rejection activates some of the same brain regions as physical pain, which is why the metaphor of hurt is more than a metaphor. In medicine, rejection is the immune system attacking a transplanted organ, and the drugs against it must be taken for life.
1nounrejectionThe refusal to accept somebody or something.
“After his tenth rejection from a publisher, he almost gave up writing.”
rejection is a refusal.
Latin reiectio comes from reicere, to throw back — re plus iacere, to throw.
Latin
reiectiōnem
French
réjection
English, today
rejection
From French réjection or directly from Latin reiectiōnem, accusative of Latin reiectiō. Displaced native āworpennes.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA