appreciation

See also: appréciation

English

Etymology

From French appréciation. Morphologically appreciate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌpɹiː.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

appreciation (countable and uncountable, plural appreciations)

1. The act of appreciating.
2. A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence; gratitude and esteem.

   We give to you this trophy as a token of our appreciation of all your years of service.

3. Accurate perception; true estimation.

   an appreciation of the difficulties before us

   an appreciation of colors

   • 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:

     The English, until relatively recently, seem to have imagined “English” and “British” to be interchangeable, as if Britain was just a bigger England. Our dualism gave us a better appreciation of the nation-state we lived in, though if Britain was a “nation” as well as a “state”, where did that leave Scotland?

   • 1874, John Richard Green, History of the English People, Volume I:

     His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character.

4. A rise in value.

Alternative forms

• 'preciation (pronunciation spelling)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "rise in value"): depreciation

Derived terms

• capital appreciation bond
• shared appreciation mortgage

 

Related terms

• appreciate

Translations

a just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence

• Arabic: تَقْدِير (ar) (taqdīr)
• Bulgarian: благодарност (bg) (blagodarnost), висока оценка (visoka ocenka)
• Czech: ocenění n
• Dutch: waardering (nl) f
• Finnish: arvostus (fi), kiitollisuus (fi)
• French: appréciation (fr) f
• Galician: apreciación (gl) f
• German: Anerkennung (de) f, Würdigung (de) f, Dankbarkeit (de) f, Wertschätzung (de) f, einschätzung f
• Hebrew: הערכה f (haarakhá)
• Hungarian: értékelés (hu), megbecsülés (hu), méltánylás (hu), elismerés (hu), méltatás (hu)
• Italian: apprezzamento (it), gratitudine (it), stima (it)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پێزانین (pêzanîn)

• Malay: penghargaan
• Ottoman Turkish: تقدیر (takdir)
• Polish: uznanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: apreciação (pt) f
• Romanian: apreciere (ro) f
• Russian: благода́рность (ru) f (blagodárnostʹ), призна́тельность (ru) f (priznátelʹnostʹ), высо́кая оце́нка f (vysókaja océnka)
• Swedish: uppskattning (sv) c
• Welsh: gwerthfawrogiad (cy) m

accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors

• Bulgarian: разбиране (bg) (razbirane), отчитане (bg) (otčitane), оценяване (bg) (ocenjavane)
• Czech: zhodnocení n, ohodnocení n
• Finnish: arviointi (fi)
• French: estimation (fr) f, évaluation (fr) f
• German: Beurteilung (de) f, Würdigung (de) f, Wertschätzung (de) f
• Hebrew: הערכה f (haarakhá)
• Hungarian: megértés (hu), felfogás (hu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تەقدیر (teqdîr)

• Portuguese: apreciação (pt) f
• Russian: оце́нка (ru) f (océnka)

a rise in value;—opposed to depreciation

• Czech: zhodnocení, stoupnutí v ceně c
• Finnish: arvonanto (fi), arvonnousu (fi)
• French: appréciation (fr) f
• Galician: apreciación (gl) f
• Georgian: გაძვირება (gaʒvireba), ღირებულების ზრდა (ɣirebulebis zrda), გამყარება (gamq̇areba) (of currency exchange rate)
• German: Wertzunahme f
• Hungarian: felértékelődés (hu), értékemelkedés (hu)
• Malay: naik nilai
• Maori: pikinga wāriu
• Polish: aprecjacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: apreciação (pt) f
• Russian: повыше́ние це́нности n (povyšénije cénnosti), вздорожа́ние (ru) n (vzdorožánije)
• Spanish: apreciación (es) f

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• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 感謝 (ja) (kansha)