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  • nounpeace
  • nounpassivity
  • nounreconciliation

synonyms for détente

  • amity
  • cooling off
  • equal power
  • harmony
  • relaxation
  • relief
  • tranquility
  • easement
  • pause
  • policy
  • precaution
  • armistice
  • cease-fire
  • reconciliation
  • accommodation
  • truce
  • understanding
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How to use détente in a sentence

The Ambassador quite appreciated that the purpose of the mission was to create a detente, as distinguished from an entente.
NEW YORK TIMES CURRENT HISTORY: THE EUROPEAN WAR, VOL. 8, PT. 2, NO. 1, JULY 1918VARIOUS
I'm glad she's not in Italy; it makes for relaxation—for a sort of moral detente.
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADYHENRY JAMES
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WORDS RELATED TO DÉTENTE

  • accommodation
  • agreement
  • appeasement
  • conciliation
  • cordiality
  • détente
  • friendliness
  • friendship
  • harmonization
  • harmony
  • reconcilement
  • reconciliation
  • reunion
  • settlement
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.