appeasement
/əˈpiːzm(ə)nt
/noun [mass noun]
The action or process of appeasing: a policy of appeasement...
- This is not a time for political accommodation or popular appeasement.
- I think that pacifism and appeasement are the politics of the naive and foolish.
- They're willing to play chicken, because they've been winning for more than a century, and our appeasements have only whetted their appetites for more concessions.
Synonyms
conciliation, placation, pacification, propitiation, palliation, allaying, reconciliation;
acquiescence, acceding, concession, accommodation, peace offering, peacemaking, peace-mongering, dovishness;
calming, mollification, soothing
informal sweetening
satisfaction, fulfilment, gratification, indulgence, provision;
assuagement, relief, deadening, tempering, quenching, slaking, satiation