embracement

== English == === Alternative forms === imbracement (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English embracement, enbracement, from Old French embrassement; equivalent to embrace +‎ -ment. === Noun === embracement (countable and uncountable, plural embracements) Synonym of embrace, variously An act of encircling another with one's arms and pulling them to one's chest, a hug. 1932, Aldous Huxley, London: Chatto & Windus, Chapter 11,[1] Five bus-loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrified highway. (figurative) The state of embracing, inclusion. (figurative) An act of embracing, full acceptance. 1994, Robert Alun Jones, Durkheim’s Imperative: “The Role of Humanities Faculty in the Information Technologies Revolution” in Brett Sutton (editor), Literary Texts in an Electronic Age: Scholarly Implications and Library Services, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, p. 175,[5] […] I believe that it is this moral dimension of the division of intellectual labor that leads many of us to feel discomfort as we survey the detritus of our traditional roles, the havoc provoked by our attraction to and embracement of these powerful technologies. 2026 July 1, Grace McCarty, "'It's Like Having a Dumb Friend': Young San Franciscans Hate AI", SFGate: "I think the embracement of AI is going to be one of the great divides of our generation," she continued, saying that as a lifelong San Franciscan, she is already seeing the impacts of that divide. "When I find out someone is working in AI, I judge their character completely..." (figurative) An enclosure. === References === “embracement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.