EMBRACEMENT Synonyms

• the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true

• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

• the state of being acceptable and accepted

• (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)

• a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank

• a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations

• the act of taking something that is offered

• the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

• a statement acknowledging something or someone

• the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

• a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

• a statement acknowledging something or someone

• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

• a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)

• the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source

• money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

• incorporation by joining or uniting

• a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner

• the formal act of approving

• a feeling of liking something or someone good

• acceptance as satisfactory

• a message expressing a favorable opinion

• the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

• the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

• the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

• a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

• the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

• in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance

• a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event

• any joyous diversion

• the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual

• a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)

• a speech seconding a motion

• formal and explicit approval

• a signature that validates something

• the act of endorsing

• archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast

• the act of becoming betrothed or engaged

• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

• the state of being included

• the relation of comprising something

• any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)

• the act of including

• consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body

• learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself

• including by incorporating

• the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community

• the act of combining into an integral whole

• an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined

• the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

• the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

• approval

• coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

• (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape

• the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country

• an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid

• designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body

• the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities

• aiding the cause or policy or interests of

• something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest

• a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission

• documentary validation

• the financial means whereby one lives

• supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation

• the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

• a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts

• any device that bears the weight of another thing

• financial resources provided to make some project possible

• give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to

• support materially or financially

• be behind; approve of

• be the physical support of; carry the weight of

• establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

• adopt as a belief

• support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm

• argue or speak in defense of

• play a subordinate role to (another performer)

• be a regular customer or client of

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

• an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

• giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted

• the state of being welcome

• a greeting or reception

• accept gladly

• bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

• receive someone, as into one's house

• the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)