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APPRECIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An increase in price or value
Example:
an appreciation of 30% in the value of real estate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("appreciation" is a kind of...):
increase; step-up (the act of increasing something)
Antonym:
depreciation (a decrease in price or value)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A favorable judgment
Example:
a small token in admiration of your works
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("appreciation" is a kind of...):
approval; approving; blessing (the formal act of approving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "appreciation"):
adoration; idolisation; idolization (the act of admiring strongly)
glorification; idealisation; idealization (a portrayal of something as ideal)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
Example:
to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste
Synonyms:
appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness; taste
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("appreciation" is a kind of...):
discrimination; secernment (the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished)
Attribute:
tasteful (having or showing or conforming to good taste)
tasteless (lacking aesthetic or social taste)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "appreciation"):
connoisseurship; vertu; virtu (love of or taste for fine objects of art)
style; trend; vogue (the popular taste at a given time)
delicacy; discretion (refined taste; tact)
culture (the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
Example:
he has a good grasp of accounting practices
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("appreciation" is a kind of...):
apprehension; discernment; savvy; understanding (the cognitive condition of someone who understands)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "appreciation"):
sense (a natural appreciation or ability)
Sense 5
Meaning:
An expression of gratitude
Example:
he expressed his appreciation in a short note
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("appreciation" is a kind of...):
thanks (an acknowledgment of appreciation)
Context examples:
Used in a wide variety of ways to promote an appreciation for and interest in biomedical research, provide additional training in specific areas, and/or to develop ways to disseminate scientific discovery into public health and community applications.
(Education Projects, NCI Thesaurus)
Appreciation of nature found no place among his many gifts, and his only change was when he turned his mind from the evil-doer of the town to track down his brother of the country.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had a young friend who set up housekeeping with six sheets, but she had finger bowls for company and that satisfied her, said Mrs. March, patting the damask tablecloths, with a truly feminine appreciation of their fineness.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Excepting one short period of her life, she had never, since the age of fourteen, never since the loss of her dear mother, known the happiness of being listened to, or encouraged by any just appreciation or real taste.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
One of them added that it was hard lines that there wasn't any gentleman such-like as yourself, squire, to show some sort of appreciation of their efforts in a liquid form; another put in a rider that the thirst then generated was such that even the time which had elapsed had not completely allayed it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And for that matter so complex and quick was her own mind that she did not have a just appreciation of simplicity.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He once wrote a Nativity play that brought him quite a bit of local appreciation.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
This full moon of November 12 is outstanding because you have both Saturn (stability and longevity) and Pluto (financial appreciation) to support your actions.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He laughed sonorously at his own conceit, for, though he had little sense of humor, the crudest pleasantry from his own lips moved him always to roars of appreciation.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And though I had been surrounded by women all my days, my appreciation of them had been æsthetic and nothing more.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
