different between adoration vs recognition

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French adoration, from Latin ad?r?ti?, ad?r?ti?nem (“worship, adoration”), from ad?r? (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ?r? (“beg”).adore +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.d???e?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: ad?o?ra?tion

Noun

adoration (countable and uncountable, plural adorations)

1. (countable) An act of religious worship.
   • a. 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

     We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration, and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us.

2. (uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

     […] if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.

3. (uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain

     He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.

4. (historical) The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).

Antonyms

• disdain

Related terms

• adorational

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ad?r?ti?, ad?r?ti?nem (“worship, adoration”), from ad?r? (“beseech; adore, worship”), from ad (“to, towards”) + ?r? (“beg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d?.?a.sj??/
• Homophone: adorations
• Hyphenation: a?do?ra?tion

Noun

adoration f (plural adorations)

1. adoration
2. (religion) adoration

Related terms

• adorer

Further reading

• “adoration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin recognitionem (accusative of recognitio), from stem recognit, past participle of recognoscere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k???n???n/

Noun

recognition (usually uncountable, plural recognitions)

1. The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).

   He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

2. Acceptance as valid or true.

   The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
3. Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
4. Honour, favourable note, or attention.

   The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.

5. (immunology) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
6. (Scotland, law, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.

Derived terms

Related terms

• recognitive
• recognitory

Translations

See also

• recognition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• identification
• type approval