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assimilation.

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

12 characters5 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
  1. The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

    countable · uncountable
  2. The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

    countable · uncountable
  3. The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

    broadly · countable · uncountable
  4. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  5. The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

    countable · uncountable
    After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.
Where this word comes from

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

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