RECOGNITION

RE ·COG ·NI ·TION 4 syllables

B1 · Intermediate 📏 11 letters 🎲 Scrabble 14 ✅ valid word

Useful in everyday and work contexts.

noun
  1. the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
  2. the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
  3. approval
  4. coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

💬 Examples

  • "the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work"
  • "she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own"
  • "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"
  • "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer"

🔗 Similar words

acknowledgmentacknowledgementidentificationcreditrealizationrealisation
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