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/rˌɛkəgnˈɪʃən/ /rˌɛkɪgnˈɪʃən/ Listen

Recognition

noun

1.

The state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged. Synonyms: acknowledgement, acknowledgment. "She seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own"

2.

The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering. Synonym: identification. "Experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer"

3.

Approval. Synonym: credit. "He was given credit for his work" , "Give her credit for trying"

4.

Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly. Synonyms: realisation, realization. "A sudden recognition of the problem he faced" , "Increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases"

5.

(biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape.

6.

The explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country.

7.

An acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid.

8.

Designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body.

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"Recognition" Quotes from Famous Books

... make it a national necessity. The changes which Frederick William's ministers made in the social and political condition of the people were in themselves of vast and permanent importance. They were made under the stimulus of a more or less clear recognition of the truth of natural, inalienable rights. Fighting against a people whose frightful aggressions were the product of this principle abnormally developed, they yet had to borrow their own weapons from the same armory. Or, if the republican principle was not at all approved, the ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... upstairs after dinner to sit with Mrs. Luttrell, as she usually did at that hour. The poor woman was perceptibly better. The look of recognition in her eyes was not so painfully beseeching as it had been hitherto; the hand which Kitty took in hers gently returned her pressure. She muttered the only word that her lips ...

— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... met at the station by a brass band or by a delegation of prominent citizens. Wherever she went she was humored, and her numerous friends vied with each other in showing her attentions. All this she took as a natural recognition of her genius, and happily was never undeceived. However innocent the Sentimental Song Book may be of any literary value, the writer's sincere attempt to express her ideas are as plain as the face which embellishes the cover of the book. She was an ignorant woman, and her utter ...

— A Williams Anthology - A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 • Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park

... before Englishmen had made themselves au fait with the subject of the Hungarian revolt, Toulmin Smith had, in his literary studies, understood the why and wherefore of the quarrel, and had, by his words, roused his country to the true recognition of how urgent was the whole question between Austria and Hungary. It must not be forgotten, too, that all his labours amongst the tangled undergrowths of the literary land were undertaken in the leisure ...

— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking

... brimming with astonishment. The face not only met the high requirements set for it by his idea of appropriateness, but abundantly surpassed the standard. Moreover, it was a face he recognized. He was not at first quite certain that her recognition of him had been as swift. A half dozen years, involving the transition from boyhood to manhood might have dimmed his image in her memory, so he hastened to introduce himself, striding across as she came a little confusedly to ...

— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck

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