Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Recognition of the quality, value, significance, or magnitude of people and things.
- n. A judgment or opinion, especially a favorable one.
- n. An expression of gratitude.
- n. Awareness or delicate perception, especially of aesthetic qualities or values.
- n. A rise in value or price, especially over time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
- n. Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.
- n. A rise in value;—opposed to depreciation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
- n. Accurate perception; true estimation
- n. A rise in value; -- opposed to
depreciation .
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of setting a price or money value on real, personal, or mercantile effects.
- n. The act of estimating the qualities of things and giving them their due value; clear perception or recognition of the quality or worth of anything; sympathetic understanding.
- n. A rising in value; increase of value.
- n. In Scots law, the appraisement or valuing of poinded or distrained goods.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an increase in price or value
- n. a favorable judgment
- n. delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
- n. an expression of gratitude
- n. understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
Etymologies
Examples
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In fact, the spiritual teacher Esther Hicks says she prefers the word "appreciation" to "gratitude," because the latter carts up the struggles that got us here, while appreciation comes from a purer place of joy.
Meryl Davids Landau: This Holiday, Give Thanks for What's Coming, Not Just What's Already Here
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This appreciation is a subsidiary requirement of tact, such acts of praise or dispraise functioning as expressions of beliefs which imply costs or benefits in terms of recognition of relative status.
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'When your people made us robots, you left out of us certain faculties, and among these is what you call appreciation of beauty.
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I think you also know how the governor responds to the word 'appreciation,' Emanuel said Wednesday.
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He added that yuan liquidity in Hong Kong remains abundant, with investors betting on long-term appreciation of the Chinese currency.
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By reducing a depreciation pressure, this will ease up one of the brakes on the longer-term appreciation trend.
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Even if you don't buy — this one is £ 2,880 — it's worth looking, simply in appreciation of the fine workmanship and designers who really do like women.
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The U.S. official said that the recent pace of appreciation is encouraging but that the U.S. is skeptical the gains will continue without persistent U.S. pressure.
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Instead, Mr. Prasad, a Princeton University professor, says China may make some sort of subtle statement outside of the G-20 that it will "enhance the formation of the exchange-rate mechanism" or something similar, indicating a slight acceleration in appreciation — and back it up with a 1%-2% move over the next couple of weeks before the Seoul summit.
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He shifted on past her to the doctor, though the slightest smile curled his lip in appreciation of the way she had trapped him.
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