Synonyms for appeasement
noun satisfaction; pacification- conciliation
- easing
- moderation
- abatement
- accommodation
- adjustment
- alleviation
- amends
- assuagement
- compromise
- concession
- grant
- lessening
- mitigation
- mollification
- placation
- propitiation
- quelling
- quenching
- reconciliation
- reparation
- restoration
- settlement
- softening
- solace
- acceding
- blunting
- lulling
- peace offering
- quieting
- soothing
- tranquilization
Antonyms for appeasement
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conciliation
noun. reconciliation
indulgence
noun. luxury; gratification
- allowance
- appeasement
- attention
- babying
- coddling
- courtesy
- endurance
- excess
- extravagance
- favor
- favoring
- fondling
- fondness
- forbearance
- fulfillment
- goodwill
- gratifying
- hedonism
- immoderation
- intemperance
- intemperateness
- kindness
- kowtowing
- lenience
- leniency
- pampering
- partiality
- patience
- permissiveness
- petting
- placating
- pleasing
- privilege
- profligacy
- profligateness
- satiation
- satisfaction
- service
- spoiling
- toadying
- tolerance
- toleration
- treating
- understanding
palliation
noun. relief
- abatement
- allayment
- alleviation
- amelioration
- appeasement
- assistance
- assuagement
- balm
- break
- breather
- cheer
- comfort
- comforting
- consolation
- contentment
- cure
- deliverance
- diversion
- ease
- easement
- extrication
- fix
- hand
- happiness
- help
- letup
- lift
- lightening
- load off one's mind
- maintenance
- mitigation
- mollification
- palliative
- quick fix
- refreshment
- release
- remission
- reprieve
- respite
- rest
- restfulness
- satisfaction
- softening
- solace
- succor
- support
- sustenance
relief
noun. remedy, aid; relaxation
- abatement
- allayment
- alleviation
- amelioration
- appeasement
- assistance
- assuagement
- balm
- break
- breather
- cheer
- comfort
- comforting
- consolation
- contentment
- cure
- deliverance
- diversion
- ease
- easement
- extrication
- fix
- hand
- happiness
- help
- letup
- lift
- lightening
- load off one's mind
- maintenance
- mitigation
- mollification
- palliative
- quick fix
- refreshment
- release
- remission
- reprieve
- respite
- rest
- restfulness
- satisfaction
- softening
- solace
- succor
- support
- sustenance
submission
noun. compliance
- acquiescence
- appeasement
- assent
- backing down
- bowing
- capitulation
- cringing
- defeatism
- deference
- docility
- giving in
- humbleness
- humility
- malleability
- meekness
- nonresistance
- obedience
- passivism
- passivity
- pliabilty
- prostration
- recreancy
- resignation
- servility
- subjection
- submissiveness
- submitting
- surrender
- tractability
- unassertiveness
- yielding
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Word Origin & History
mid-15c., "pacification," from Middle French apeisement, Old French apaisement "appeasement, calming," noun of action from apaisier (see appease). First recorded 1919 in international political sense; not pejorative until failure of Chamberlain's policy toward Germany in 1939 (Methods of appeasement was Chamberlain's description of his policy).