assimilation

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
2. (countable, uncountable) The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
3. (broadly, countable, uncountable) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
4. (countable, uncountable) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
5. (countable, uncountable) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Synonyms

absorption

anabolism

adaptation

metabolism

acculturation

assimilate

conformity

conglomeration

digestion

imbibition

imitation

merging

reabsorption

readjustment

resorption

blending in

adoption

coalescency

assimilation anabolism

accommodation

adaption

adjustment

amalgamation

Translations

assimilation

asimilación

assimilação

Assimilation

assimilazione

αφομοίωση

assimilació

assimilatie

Angleichung

absorption

Anpassung

anabolisme

Aufnahme

assimilateur

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion.