rejection
noun
- act or process of removing from consideration, dismissing, declining, rebuffing, throwing out, not accepting (socially or medically)
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/ / [ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən] ~ [ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃn̩] / /ɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/
noun
Etymology: From French réjection or directly from Latin reiectiōnem, accusative of Latin reiectiō. Displaced native Old English āworpennes (literally “thrown-out-ness”).
- The act of rejecting.
“My offer was met with rejection”
- The state of being rejected.
- A blocked shot.
- An immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in an organ transplant.