Appreciation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Appreciation \Ap*pre`ci*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. appr['e]ciation.]
     1. A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight,
        etc.; recognition of excellence.
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     2. Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation


        of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.
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              His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's
              character.                            --J. R. Green.
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     3. A rise in value; -- opposed to {depreciation}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  appreciation
       n 1: understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or
            magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of
            accounting practices" [syn: {grasp}, {hold}]
       2: delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values);
          "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid
          success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate
          in bad taste" [syn: {taste}, {discernment}, {perceptiveness}]
       3: an expression of gratitude; "he expressed his appreciation
          in a short note"
       4: a favorable judgment; "a small token in admiration of your
          works" [syn: {admiration}]
       5: an increase in price or value; "an appreciation of 30% in
          the value of real estate" [ant: {depreciation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  180 Moby Thesaurus words for "appreciation":
     acceptance, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement,
     accumulation, acknowledgment, addition, admiration, admission,
     adoration, advance, aggrandizement, allowance, amplification,
     analyzing, apotheosis, apperception, appraisal, appraisement,
     appraising, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness,
     approbation, approval, artistic judgment, ascent, assessing,
     assessment, augmentation, avowal, awareness, awe, ballooning,
     bloating, blurb, boom, boost, breathless adoration, broadening,
     buildup, cognition, cognizance, commendation, comprehension,
     concession, confession, connoisseurship, consciousness,
     consideration, courtesy, crescendo, critical niceness,
     criticalness, declaration, deference, deification, delicacy,
     development, discriminating taste, discriminatingness,
     discrimination, discriminativeness, duty, edema, elevation,
     enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, esteem, estimate, estimation,
     evaluating, evaluation, evaluative criticism, exaggerated respect,
     expansion, extension, fastidiousness, favor, feel, feeling,
     fine palate, finesse, flood, gain, gauging, good word,
     gratefulness, gratitude, great respect, greatening, growth, gush,
     hero worship, high regard, hike, homage, honor, honorable mention,
     hype, idolatry, idolization, increase, increment, inflation,
     insight, judiciousness, jump, knowledge, leap, making distinctions,
     measurement, mindfulness, mounting, multiplication,
     niceness of distinction, nicety, noesis, note, notice, obligation,
     opinion, palate, perception, plug, prestige, productiveness,
     profession, proliferation, promotion, puff, raise, ranking, rating,
     realization, reckoning, recognition, refined discrimination,
     refined palate, refinement, regard, respect, reverence,
     reverential regard, rise, salvo, selectiveness, sense,
     sense of obligation, sensibility, sensitivity, snowballing, spread,
     subtlety, surge, swelling, tact, tactfulness, taste, thankfulness,
     thanks, tribute, tumescence, understanding, up, upping, upsurge,
     upswing, uptrend, upturn, valuation, valuing, veneration, view,
     waxing, weighing, widening, worship