[avacado]

"I hope the use of the word admittance was a deliberate gaffe designed to taunt her detractors."

You got me. What's wrong with the use of that word?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

You got me. What's wrong with the use of that word?

It's a perfectly good word:

admittance (noun)

1. the process or fact of entering or being allowed to enter a place or institution : people were unable to gain admittance to the hall.

2. Physics a measure of electrical

It's just that the sentence calls for a different word - admission (or, perhaps, confession).