Assimilation

Quick meaning: Assimilation is a noun meaning The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

Meaning

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

More Meanings

1. The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
2. (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
3. (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
4. (phonology) 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.

Example Sentences

After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.

We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.

Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.

His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.

Word Forms

• assimilations

Synonyms for assimilation

Depending on context, synonyms include absorption, acculturation.

Antonyms for assimilation

Common opposites include dissimilation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include acculturation, absorption, equalisation, integration, inclusion, incorporation.

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