Other forms: estimations
An estimation is a rough judgement of size or worth, or the regard you are held in. In my estimation.
The regard sense is the commoner in speech, since in my estimation means in my opinion. The measuring sense belongs to surveying and to insurance.
1nounestimationA rough judgement of size or worth, or the regard you are held in.
“He went up in everybody's estimation after that meeting.”
estimation is a judgement.
Latin aestimatio comes from aestimare, to value or appraise.
Latin
aestimatio
Old French
estimacion
Middle English
estimacioun
English, today
estimation
From Middle English estimacioun, estimacion, from Old French estimacion, from Latin aestimatio. Morphologically estimate + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA