Definition of Adience

1. Noun. (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object.

Category relationships: Psychological Science, Psychology
Generic synonyms: Impulse, Urge
Antonyms: Abience
Derivative terms: Adient

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adience

adiaphorism
adiaphoristic
adiaphorists
adiaphoron
adiaphorous
adiaphory
adiaspiromycosis
adiaspore
adiastole
adiathermancies
adiathermancy
adiathermic
adicities
adicity
adiemorrhysis
adience (current term)
adient
adient behaviour
adieu
adieus
adieux
adimensional
adimolol
adinkra
adinkras
adiopocere
adios
adipamidase
adipamide
adipamides

Literary usage of Adience

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"To gie adience, to make room; as, to give a wall adience, not to confine it in its extent, Fife. It is viewed as synon. with S. ..."

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