say it: kuhn-sil-ee-AY-shuhn
conciliation is a noun meaning "the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled
“there was a brief period of conciliation but the fighting soon resumed”
any of various forms of mediation whereby disputes may be settled short of arbitration
the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for conciliation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.