The act, action, or result of embracing someone or something.
From embrace + -ment (from Old French -ment and Latin -mentum, a noun-forming suffix). The -ment suffix creates nouns from verbs, often referring to the action or state resulting from that verb.
The -ment suffix is how English turned the verb 'embrace' into something you can count and discuss—'the embracement of new ideas' is very different from just saying 'embracing' them. Suffixes let us shift perspective!
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