resignation synonyms

resignation

n.

  1. Mental preparation for something unwelcome

    submission, humility, passivity, patience, deference, docility, submissiveness, renunciation, self-abnegation, resignedness, acquiescence, endurance, compliance, yieldingness, unresistingness.

    Antonyms resistance*, unsubmissiveness, unwillingness.

  2. The act of resigning

    retirement, departure, leaving, quitting, giving up, abdication, surrender, withdrawal, relinquishment, abandonment, vacating, tendering one's resignation, giving up office, termination of one's connection.

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