appeasement
noun
ap·pease·ment
| \ ə-ˈpēz-mənt
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plural appeasements
Definition of appeasement
1
: the act or action of appeasing someone or something
… one tribe may go in for the appeasement of local ghosts …— W. D. Howells
especially
: a policy of appeasing an enemy or potential aggressor by making concessions
Although appeasement may work in individual cases, terrorist groups with global ambitions cannot be appeased by territorial concessions. — Walter Laqueur The Munich analogy—recalling the Allies' appeasement of Germany over its demands on Czechoslovakia in 1938—has been cited again and again, and this is understandable. — Fredric Smoler
2
: the state of being satisfied
an experience from which he derived little appeasement … we are relieved to read of Shaw … alleviating the tedium of a vegetarian diet with secret gorges on boiled sweets and cake; his sensuality found appeasement in sugar.— Robertson Davies