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ESTIMATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A judgment of the qualities of something or somebody
Example:
in my estimation the boy is innocent
Synonyms:
estimate; estimation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("estimation" is a kind of...):
assessment; judgement; judgment (the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estimation"):
appraisal (an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something)
capitalisation; capitalization (an estimation of the value of a business)
Derivation:
estimate (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))
Sense 2
Meaning:
An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
Example:
a rough idea how long it would take
Synonyms:
approximation; estimate; estimation; idea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("estimation" is a kind of...):
calculation; computation; figuring; reckoning (problem solving that involves numbers or quantities)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estimation"):
scalage (estimation of the amount of lumber in a log)
credit; credit rating (an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments)
dead reckoning; guess; guessing; guesswork; shot (an estimate based on little or no information)
guesstimate; guestimate (an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing)
overestimate; overestimation; overrating; overreckoning (a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high)
underestimate; underestimation; underrating; underreckoning (an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value)
Derivation:
estimate (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))
Sense 3
Meaning:
The respect with which a person is held
Example:
they had a high estimation of his ability
Synonyms:
estimate; estimation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("estimation" is a kind of...):
esteem; regard; respect (an attitude of admiration or esteem)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estimation"):
report; reputation (the general estimation that the public has for a person)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation)
Synonyms:
appraisal; estimate; estimation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("estimation" is a kind of...):
commercial document; commercial instrument (a document of or relating to commerce)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estimation"):
overappraisal; overestimate; overestimation; overvaluation (an appraisal that is too high)
Derivation:
estimate (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))
Context examples:
She looked back; she compared the two—compared them, as they had always stood in her estimation, from the time of the latter's becoming known to her—and as they must at any time have been compared by her, had it—oh! had it, by any blessed felicity, occurred to her, to institute the comparison.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The next day, came the news that the murder had not been overlooked, that the guilt of Hyde was patent to the world, and that the victim was a man high in public estimation.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
In Mrs. Dashwood's estimation he was as faultless as in Marianne's; and Elinor saw nothing to censure in him but a propensity, in which he strongly resembled and peculiarly delighted her sister, of saying too much what he thought on every occasion, without attention to persons or circumstances.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
There he had seen everything to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost; and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Everingham, as it used to be, was perfect in my estimation: such a happy fall of ground, and such timber!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
This is the estimation in which you hold me!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
As for Maria, Martin rose in her estimation a full hundred per cent, and had the Portuguese grocer witnessed that afternoon carriage-call he would have allowed Martin an additional three-dollars-and-eighty-five-cents' worth of credit.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He and I should differ very little in our estimation of the two, interrupted she, with a sort of serious smile—much less, perhaps, than he is aware of, if we could enter without ceremony or reserve on the subject.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Elinor would not oppose his opinion, because, whatever might be her general estimation of the advantage of a public school, she could not think of Edward's abode in Mr. Pratt's family, with any satisfaction.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It does him the highest honour; it shews his proper estimation of the blessing of domestic happiness and pure attachment.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
