acquiescence

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French acquiescence.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌæk.wiːˈɛs.əns/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

acquiescence (countable and uncountable, plural acquiescences)

1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent consent, distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

   reluctant acquiescence

   sign of acquiescence

   in acquiescence with

   She nodded in quiet acquiescence.

   His acquiescence to their demands surprised everyone.

   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     We were accustomed to prompt, if not always cheerful acquiescence to Atticus’s instructions, but from the way he stood Jem was not thinking of budging.

2. (law) Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:acquiescence.

Synonyms

• sufferance

Derived terms

• nonacquiescence

Related terms

• acquiesce

Translations

silent or passive assent

• Catalan: aquiescència f, consentiment (ca) m
• Dutch: stilzwijgende instemming f
• Esperanto: malprotesto
• French: acquiescement (fr) m, consentement (fr)
• German: Duldung (de) f, Einwilligung (de) f, Einverständnis (de) n, Fügung (de) f, Zustimmung (de) f, Inkaufnahme f, Ergebung f, Beistimmung f, Akquieszenz f, stillschweigende Billigung f, stillschweigende Zustimmung f, stillschweigende Einwilligung f
• Greek: συναίνεση (el) f (synaínesi), συγκατάθεση (el) f (sygkatáthesi)
• Hebrew: הַסְכָּמָה שֶׁבִּשְׁתִיקָה (he) f (haskamá šebištiqá)
• Hungarian: belenyugvás (hu), beletörődés (hu), beleegyezés (hu)
• Indonesian: akuisens
• Italian: acquiescenza (it) f
• Japanese: 黙認 (ja) (もくにん, mokunin)
• Polish: potulność (pl) f, przyzwolenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: aquiescência (pt) f
• Russian: молчали́вое согла́сие n (molčalívoje soglásije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: попуштање, прѝстанак m

  Latin: popuštanje, prìstanak (sh) m

• Spanish: aquiescencia (es) f, consentimiento (es) m
• Swedish: medgivande (sv), underkastelse (sv), eftergivenhet (sv)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: اذن (izn)

inaction to take legal recourse which implies the abandonment of a right

• Dutch: rechtsverwerking f
• French: péremption (fr) f
• German: Verwirkung f, stillschweigende Hinnahme f, Hinnahme (de) f, Unterwerfung (de) f
• Italian: perenzione (it) f
• Portuguese: perempção (pt) f
• Spanish: perención (es) f