Synonyms for resignation

noun

1. Mental preparation for something unwelcome

   submission, humility, passivity, patience, deference, docility, submissiveness, renunciation, self-abnegation, resignedness, acquiescence, endurance, compliance, yieldingness, unresistingness.

   Antonyms resistance*, unsubmissiveness, unwillingness.

2. The act of resigning

   retirement, departure, leaving, quitting, giving up, abdication, surrender, withdrawal, relinquishment, abandonment, vacating, tendering one's resignation, giving up office, termination of one's connection.