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Acceptance
Person's assent to the reality of a situation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Acceptance (disambiguation).
Acceptance in human psychology is a person's recognition and assent to the finality of a situation without attempting to change or protest it. This plays out at both the individual and societal level as people experience change.
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