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Mediate vs Conciliation - What's the difference?

mediate | conciliation |

As a verb mediate

is to resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.

As an adjective mediate

is acting through a mediating agency.

As a noun conciliation is

the action of bringing peace and harmony; the action of ending strife.

mediate

English

Verb

(mediat)
  • To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
  • To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
  • To divide into two equal parts.
  • (Holder)
  • To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey
  • Adjective

  • Acting through a mediating agency.
  • * (Oliver Sacks)
  • Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.
  • Intermediate between extremes.
  • (Prior)
  • Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
  • An act of mediate knowledge is complex.

    Derived terms

    * mediately

    conciliation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of bringing peace and harmony; the action of ending strife.
  • (wikipedia conciliation)
  • (legal) A form of alternative dispute resolution, similar but less formal than mediation, in which the parties bring their dispute to a neutral third party, who helps lower tensions, improve communications and explore possible solutions.
  • See also

    * reconciliation