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validation

noun/ˌvælɪˈdeɪʃən/

B1CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

The communication that a person's feelings are understood and accepted as real and reasonable.

Offering validation, the nurse said it made complete sense that he felt exhausted after such a week.

Similar: acknowledgement

Topic: Mental health nursing in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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