assimilation




assimilation - noun

  • the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
  • the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
  • the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
  • a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
  • the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
  • in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance

    • assimilation - thesaurus

    absorption   acculturation