rejection

blanket, outright, total, wholesale

deliberate

fear

Many people who experience loneliness often fear rejection when trying to make new friends.

risk

cope with, take

After losing five job interviews, she learned to take rejection as part of the process.

letter, slip

She received a rejection letter from the job application and felt discouraged for days.

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After facing rejection by multiple publishers, she finally found an agent who believed in her novel.

fear of rejection, feelings of rejection, the rejection of an idea/a proposal/a theory