admittance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ad=mit=tance

CIDE DICTIONARY

admittance, n. 

•  The act of admitting.  [1913 Webster]
•  Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.  [1913 Webster]

  "To gain admittance into the house."  [1913 Webster]

  "He desires admittance to the king."  [1913 Webster]

  "To give admittance to a thought of fear."  [1913 Webster]
•  Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]
•  Admissibility.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.  Bouvier.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation.

admittance, n. 

 The reciprocal of impedance.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

admittance, n.
1 the right or process of admitting or being admitted, usu. to a place (no admittance except on business).
2 Electr. the reciprocal of impedance.

Usage

A more formal and technical word than admission.

ROGET THESAURUS

admittance

Reception

N reception, admission, admittance, entree, importation, introduction, intromission, immission, ingestion, imbibation, introception, absorption, ingurgitation, inhalation, suction, sucking, eating, drinking, insertion, interjection, introit, admitting, admitted, admissable, absorbent.