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1
a feeling of great approval and liking
- my appreciation of her great contributions to women's sports
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- acclamation,
- adoration,
- adulation,
- approbation,
- deference,
- hero worship,
- homage,
- honor,
- idolatry,
- infatuation,
- lionization,
- praise,
- props
- [slang],
- reverence,
- veneration,
- worship
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2
acknowledgment of having received something good from another
- if you can do that, you'll have our heartfelt appreciation
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3
the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something
- a course intended to give students an appreciation of abstract art
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The first known use of appreciation was in 1604
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