assimilation

Nouns

  • (n) the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
  • (n) the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another absorption,
  • (n) the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion absorption,
  • (n) a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
  • (n) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure acculturation,
  • (n) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance

Synonyms

absorption acculturation

Words of close approximity

assimilating assimilative