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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Passive assent or agreement without protest.
  2. n. The state of being acquiescent.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of acquiescing or giving tacit assent; a silent submission, or submission with apparent consent.
  2. n. In law, such neglect to take legal proceedings in opposition to a matter as implies consent thereto. Synonyms Assent, Consent, Concurrence, etc. (see assent), compliance, resignation.
  3. n. Originally, but now rarely, contentment; satisfaction. In the ethics of Spinoza, acquiescence in one's very self is an ignoble self-satisfaction; but acquiescence of the soul in the knowledge of God is the highest result of virtue.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
  2. n. Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
  2. n. Submission to an injury by the party injured.
  3. n. Tacit concurrence in the action of another.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. acceptance without protest
  2. n. agreement with a statement or proposal to do something

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  • wordup such a lovely word to say out loud... Nov 11, 2007

‘acquiescence’ has been looked up 2463 times, loved by 8 people, added to 36 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 24.