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

Advertisement Beneath their cultural differences, AI safety and cybersecurity have competing understandings of what AI is.

— Harry Booth, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
China and the United States would be well advised to seek similar understandings to limit the AI arms race.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of understandings

Noun

Many young adults who started families in the past twenty years were raised this way, which shaped their own conceptions of how to rear children.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Whether destruction or technological progress, both are purposeful activities, each with different conceptions of success or failure.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of conceptions

Noun

The data comes from the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute’s inaugural regional well-being survey, which asked adults across 14 counties about their finances, housing, communities and perceptions of their own lives.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2026
The school has worked hard to knock down the bogeyman perceptions.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

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