rejection

English

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/
• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

rejection (countable and uncountable, plural rejections)

1. The act of rejecting.
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

• rejection sensitivity
• rejection slip

Translations

act of rejecting

• Armenian: մերժում (hy) (meržum)
• Bulgarian: отхвърляне (bg) n (othvǎrljane)
• Catalan: rebuig (ca) m, refús (ca) m
• Czech: odmítnutí (cs) n
• Esperanto: malakcepto (eo)
• Finnish: hylkääminen (fi), hylkäys (fi)
• French: refus (fr), rejet (fr)
• 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)
• Latin: reiectiō f, repulsa f
• 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
• Spanish: rechazo (es) m
• Telugu: తిరస్కారము (te) (tiraskāramu), తిరస్కృతి (te) (tiraskr̥ti)

state of being rejected

• Finnish: hylätyksi tuleminen

sports: blocked shot — see blocked shot

medicine: immune reaction to foreign tissue

• Finnish: hylkiminen (fi)
• Hungarian: kilökődés