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Abstention vs Veto - What's the difference?

abstention | veto |

As nouns the difference between abstention and veto

is that abstention is the act of restraining oneself while veto is a political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

As a verb veto is

to use a veto against.

abstention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) The act of restraining oneself.
  • The act of abstaining; a holding aloof; refraining from.
  • The act of declining to vote on a particular issue.
  • Non-participation in the political world; as a country avoiding international affairs.

    • References

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    veto

    English

    (wikipedia veto)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
  • An invocation of that right.
  • An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
  • * George Eliot
    • This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To use a against.

    • Anagrams

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