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Acquiescent vs Amenable - What's the difference?

acquiescent | amenable |

As adjectives the difference between acquiescent and amenable

is that acquiescent is willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance while amenable is willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

acquiescent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance
  • resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

    • See also

    * quiescent

    References

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    amenable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
  • Willing to comply with; agreeable.
  • (math, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

    • Antonyms

    * unamenable

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