ASSIMILATIONS Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

assimilations

noun

plural of assimilation

as in understandings

the act or process of learning or gaining understanding The dog's rapid assimilation of new tricks pleased his owners.

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Recent Examples of assimilations Some K-pop songs, just in their surface-level presentation, put their cross-cultural assimilations up front. — Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 29 Jan. 2026

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Noun

But the industry’s significance to black history goes beyond economic understandings of racial uplift.

— John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
Two factors mistakenly confine popular understandings of the reparations debate in the United States.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026

Definition of understandings

Noun

Are such dichotomous conceptions of the novel mutually exclusive?

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
The thread of citizen rights and responsibilities weaves through each of these, uniting evolving conceptions of freedom, self-government, and individual achievement from the nation’s past through to its present.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 4 July 2026

Definition of conceptions

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The findings come as congressional Democrats circulate other polling on primary voters’ negative perceptions of crypto.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 3 Aug. 2026
More serious and rare than postpartum depression, psychosis leads patients to struggle with their perceptions of reality.

— Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of perceptions

Noun

Awakening Uranus in your 12th House of Solitude forms a trine with Pluto in your 8th House of Intimacy and Shared Resources, stirring private realizations around trust, debt, vulnerability, or emotional labor.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
Guys’ inability to fully deliver for Dean is explored in trenchant lyrics that seem to be exploring fateful realizations about so-so situationships in real time.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 17 July 2026

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