Meaning and example
the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)
The passage used "appeasement" to mean the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of).
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.801 places appeasement in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 96.9% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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- 96.9%
inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
- Known by
- 96.9%
uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
- Known by
- 96.8%
deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
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- 97%
spreading or spread throughout
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- 96.8%
lacking brightness or color; dull
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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