reconciliation

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The re-establishment of friendly relations; conciliation, rapprochement.
2. (countable, uncountable) The process of comparing and resolving apparent differences between sets of accounting records, or between accounting records and bank statements, receipts, etc.
3. (countable, uncountable) Religious senses.
4. (countable, uncountable) Religious senses.
5. (countable, uncountable) Religious senses.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Religious senses.
7. (Australia, Canada, countable, uncountable) The process of systemically atoning for the crimes and broken promises that a nation has historically committed against indigenous people.

Opposite of

irreconciliation, unreconciliation

Synonyms

conciliation

peace

☮️

settlement

rapprochement

compromise

reconcilement

mediation

harmonization

accommodation

negotiation

agreement

appeasement

balancing

solution

make peace with

justification

making-up

mediate

convenient

confession

concord

placate

propitiation

adjustment

resolution

reunification

adaptation

good pacification

transaction

validation

verification

conditioning arbitration

killing with bare hands

making noodles by hand

accord

renion

harmony

justice

Translations

réconciliation

riconciliazione

reconciliación

Versöhnung

conciliación

reconciliação

rapprochement

conciliação

conciliation

conciliazione

συμφιλίωση

Abstimmung

συμφωνία

συμβιβασμός

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌɹɛk(ə)nsɪlɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: reconciliacioun

Cognate with French: réconciliation

In summary

From Middle English reconciliacioun (“act of reconciling; state of accord or harmony;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman reconciliaciun, reconsiliacion, reconsiliaciun, and Middle French reconciliation, reconsiliacion, reconsiliation (“act of reconciling; result of this act; act of bringing about agreement or harmony; reconsecration of a desecrated place”) (modern French réconciliation), and from their Latin etymon reconciliātiō (“reinstatement, renewal, restoration; reconciliation”), from reconciliāre + -tiō.