different between consideration vs considerate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French consideracion, from Latin c?ns?der?ti?. Synchronically analyzable as consider +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?d???e???n/
• Hyphenation: con?sid?er?ation
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

consideration (countable and uncountable, plural considerations)

1. The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).

   Synonyms: deliberation, thought
2. Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.

   Synonyms: factor, motive, reason

3. The tendency to consider others.

4. A payment or other recompense for something done.

5. (law) A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
6. Importance, claim to notice, regard.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 54

     [...] settled down on a small property he had near Quimper to live for the rest of his days in peace; but the failure of an attorney left him suddenly penniless, and neither he nor his wife was willing to live in penury where they had enjoyed consideration.

Related terms

Translations

Middle French

Noun

consideration f (plural considerations)

1. Alternative form of consyderation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?d???t/

Adjective

considerate (comparative more considerate, superlative most considerate)

1. consciously thoughtful and observant (often of other people); caring

   It was very considerate of you to give up your place for your friend.

2. characterised by careful and conscious thought; deliberate

Antonyms

• inconsiderate

Related terms

• consider
• consideration
• considerately
• considerateness

Translations

Verb

considerate (third-person singular simple present considerates, present participle considerating, simple past and past participle considerated)

1. (rare) Synonym of consider

Anagrams

• decreations, desecration, resonicated

Interlingua

Participle

considerate

1. past participle of considerar

Italian

Adjective

considerate

1. feminine plural of considerato

Verb

considerate

1. inflection of considerare:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

Anagrams

• esercitando, estraendoci, stenocardie

Latin

Adverb

c?ns?der?t? (comparative c?ns?der?tius, superlative c?ns?der?tissim?)

1. considerately, carefully, cautiously

Verb

c?ns?der?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?ns?der?

References

• considerate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• considerate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• considerate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.