rejection

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Etymology

From French réjection or directly from Latin reiectiōnem, accusative of Latin reiectiō. Displaced native Old English āworpennes (literally “thrown-out-ness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/, /ɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

rejection (countable and uncountable, plural rejections)

1. The act of rejecting.

   My offer was met with rejection

2. The state of being rejected.
3. (sports) A blocked shot.
4. (medicine) An immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in an organ transplant.

Synonyms

• (state of being rejected): rejectedness

Derived terms

• allorejection
• antibody-mediated rejection
• antirejection
• desk rejection
• immunorejection
• nonrejection
• overrejection
• postrejection
• prerejection
• rejectional
• rejectionism
• rejectionist
• rejectionistic
• rejection nucleus
• rejection region
• rejection sampling
• rejection sensitivity
• rejection slip
• xenorejection

Translations

act of rejecting

Arabic: رَفْض m (rafḍ), إِبَاء m (ʔibāʔ) Armenian: մերժում (hy) (meržum) Belarusian: адмо́ва f (admóva), адхіле́нне n (adxiljénnje) Bulgarian: отхвъ́рляне (bg) n (othvǎ́rljane), о́тказ (bg) m (ótkaz) Catalan: rebuig (ca) m, refús (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 拒絕 / 拒绝 (keoi5 zyut6) Mandarin: 拒絕 / 拒绝 (zh) (jùjué) Czech: odmítnutí (cs) n Dutch: afwijzing (nl) f Esperanto: malakcepto (eo) Finnish: hylkääminen (fi), hylkäys (fi) French: refus (fr) m, rejet (fr) m Galician: rexeitamento (gl) m German: Ablehnung (de) f Greek: απάρνηση (el) f (apárnisi) Hungarian: elutasítás (hu), visszautasítás (hu), elvetés (hu) Indonesian: penolakan (id) Irish: dearadh m Italian: rifiuto (it) Japanese: 拒絶 (ja) (きょぜつ, kyozetsu) Korean: 거절(拒絶) (ko) (geojeol) Latin: reiectiō f, repulsa f Macedonian: отфрлање n (otfrlanje), одбивање n (odbivanje) Maori: akiritanga Old English: āworpennes f Polish: odmowa (pl) f, odrzucenie (pl) n Portuguese: rejeição (pt) f Russian: отка́з (ru) m (otkáz), отклоне́ние (ru) n (otklonénije), неприя́тие (ru) n (neprijátije), неприня́тие (ru) n (neprinjátije) Scottish Gaelic: diùltadh m Slovak: odmietnutie n Spanish: rechazo (es) m, rechazamiento (es) m Telugu: తిరస్కారము (te) (tiraskāramu), తిరస్కృతి (te) (tiraskr̥ti) Ukrainian: відмо́ва (uk) f (vidmóva), відхи́лення n (vidxýlennja)

state of being rejected

Finnish: hylätyksi tuleminen Spanish: rechazamiento (es) m, rechazo (es) m

sports: blocked shot — see blocked shot

medicine: immune reaction to foreign tissue

Finnish: hylkiminen (fi) Hungarian: kilökődés (hu)