reconcilement
Making peace again
Reconcilement is the act or process of reconciling—restoring harmony after conflict or bringing conflicting things into agreement.
The word is a somewhat formal or literary alternative to reconciliation: The reconcilement of their differences took years.
Both forms work in abstract contexts like the reconcilement of opposing ideas or accounts.
Reestablishment of harmonious relations
- mendingRestoring damaged items
- healingRestoration of health
- peacemakingResolving conflicts through negotiation
- restorationReturning something to condition
reunion · amends · forgiveness · pardon · atonement · apology · olive-branch · reparation
Easing of strained relations
- accordHarmony between parties
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
settlement · treaty · pact · agreement · negotiation · mediation · arbitration · conciliation
Harmony between parties
- concordMutual agreement, peaceful relations
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
rapport · amity · compatibility · alignment · congruity · consonance · agreement · understanding
Yielding a point
- middle-groundIntermediate position between extremes
- give-and-takeMutual concession between parties
- trade-offExchange requiring sacrifice
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
accommodation · settlement · bargaining · flexibility · moderation · quid-pro-quo · yielding
Sense of emotional resolution
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- finalizationAct of completing something
- determinationFirmness of purpose
solving · rectification · remedy · answer · outcome · ending · completion · denouement
rapprochement
Reestablishment of harmonious relations
- mendingRestoring damaged items
- healingRestoration of health
- peacemakingResolving conflicts through negotiation
restoration · reunion · amends · forgiveness · pardon · atonement · apology · olive-branch · reparation · redemption
détente
Easing of strained relations
ceasefire · settlement · treaty · pact · agreement · negotiation · mediation · arbitration · conciliation · peacemaking
accord
Harmony between parties
- concordMutual agreement, peaceful relations
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
attunement · rapport · amity · compatibility · alignment · congruity · consonance · agreement · understanding · equilibrium
concession
Yielding a point
- middle-groundIntermediate position between extremes
- give-and-takeMutual concession between parties
- trade-offExchange requiring sacrifice
adjustment · accommodation · settlement · bargaining · flexibility · moderation · quid-pro-quo · yielding
closure
Sense of emotional resolution
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- finalizationAct of completing something
determination · solving · rectification · remedy · answer · outcome · ending · completion · denouement
reconcilementestrangement
Emotional separation between people
alienation · separation · disaffection · rupture · breach
reconcile, reconciliation, conciliate, conciliatory, irreconcilable, reconciled, reconcilable, reconciling, reconciler