Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Recognition of the quality, value, significance, or magnitude of people and things.
- noun A judgment or opinion, especially a favorable one.
- noun An expression of gratitude.
- noun Awareness or delicate perception, especially of aesthetic qualities or values.
- noun A rise in value or price, especially over time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of setting a price or money value on real, personal, or mercantile effects.
- noun 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.
- noun A rising in value; increase of value.
- noun In Scots law, the appraisement or valuing of poinded or distrained goods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
- noun Accurate perception; true estimation
- noun A rise in value; -- opposed to
depreciation .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
- noun Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.
- noun A rise in value;—opposed to
depreciation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an increase in price or value
- noun a favorable judgment
- noun delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
- noun an expression of gratitude
- noun understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
Etymologies
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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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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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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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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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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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- acceptance
- access
- accession
- accretion
- accrual
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- accumulation
- acknowledgment
- addition
- admiration
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- good word
- gratefulness
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- respect
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- snowballing
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- tact
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- thankfulness
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- tribute
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- up
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- Alsatian
- Americanization
- Appalachian
- Balkanization
- Christianization
- Confederation
- Corp.
- Croatian
- Dalmatian
- Desegregation
- Finlandization
- Haitian
- Horatian
- Incarnation
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- cetacean
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- deflation
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- hallucination
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- justification
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- localization
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- reflation
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- refrigeration
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- regeneration
- regimentation
- registration
- regulation
- rehabilitation
- rehydration
- reincarnation
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- relation
- relaxation
- relocation
- remediation
- remuneration
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- renomination
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- renunciation
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- reparation
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- replication
- representation
- repudiation
- reputation
- reregulation
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- resignation
- respiration
- restoration
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- retaliation
- retardation
- reunification
- revaluation
- revelation
- reverberation
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- rotation
- rumination
- russification
- salvation
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- sanitation
- saponification
- sarmatian
- saturation
- securitization
- sedation
- sedimentation
- segmentation
- segregation
- self-congratulation
- self-determination
- sensation
- separation
- sequestration
- simplification
- simulation
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- situation
- socialization
- solicitation
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- specification
- speculation
- stabilization
- stagflation
- stagnation
- stalinization
- standardization
- starvation
- station
- sterilization
- stimulation
- stipulation
- strangulation
- subluxation
- subordination
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- suffocation
- summation
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- surrogation
- synchronization
- syndication
- tabloidization
- tabulation
- taxation
- telecommunication
- temptation
- termination
- titillation
- toleration
- transformation
- transillumination
- translation
- transplantation
- transportation
- trepidation
- triangulation
- tribulation
- ulceration
- undervaluation
- unification
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- urbanization
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- utilization
- vacation
- vaccination
- vacillation
- validation
- valuation
- vaporization
- variation
- vegetation
- veneration
- ventilation
- verification
- vibration
- victimization
- vilification
- vindication
- violation
- visitation
- visualization
- vocation
- vulgarization
- westernization
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