appeasements
Efforts to placate
Appeasements are acts of giving in to demands or making concessions to avoid conflict.
The word carries connotations of weakness or misguided diplomacy, colored by the policy of yielding to Hitler's territorial demands before World War II: The treaty was criticized as another in a series of appeasements.
An appeasement may also be something that satisfies or calms: small appeasements to keep the children quiet.
Reducing distress or discomfort
- calmingInducing a settled state
- mollificationAct of calming anger
- placationCalming hostile feelings
- assuagingLessening intensity or severity
quieting · reassuring · softening · easing · mitigating · tempering · conciliating · defusing
Things granted or yielded
- negotiationsFormal discussion seeking agreement
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
- summitsHighest elevations or conferences
- ChamberlainManager of household affairs
détente · rapprochement · statecraft · ambassadors · envoys · bilateral · multilateral · accords
Cease resistance, yield
- yieldingBending under pressure
- submissionYielding to another's will
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
- weaknessDeficiency in force
cowardice · sellout · betrayal · accommodation · kowtowing · groveling · spinelessness · enabling
Intervention to resolve conflict
- arbitrationNon-court binding dispute resolution
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
armistice · truce · de-escalation · bridge-building · dialogue · negotiation · compromise · accord
soothing
Reducing distress or discomfort
- calmingInducing a settled state
- mollificationAct of calming anger
- placationCalming hostile feelings
assuaging · quieting · reassuring · softening · easing · mitigating · tempering · conciliating · defusing · disarming
concessions
Things granted or yielded
- negotiationsFormal discussion seeking agreement
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
- summitsHighest elevations or conferences
Chamberlain · détente · rapprochement · statecraft · ambassadors · envoys · bilateral · multilateral · accords · pacts
surrender
Cease resistance, yield
- yieldingBending under pressure
- submissionYielding to another's will
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
weakness · cowardice · sellout · betrayal · accommodation · kowtowing · groveling · spinelessness · enabling · emboldening
mediation
Intervention to resolve conflict
- arbitrationNon-court binding dispute resolution
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
ceasefire · armistice · truce · de-escalation · bridge-building · dialogue · negotiation · compromise · accord · resolution
appeasementsconfrontations
Direct hostile encounters
resistances · challenges · provocations · counterattacks · aggressions
appeasementsintransigence
Refusal to compromise
unyieldingness · steadfastness · resolve · obstinacy · inflexibility
appeasementsassertions
Statements presented as true
stands · firmness · intransigence · obstinacy · belligerence
- appeasement policySatisfying aggressors through concessions