Other forms: recognitions
Recognition is being noticed and praised for what you did. Get the recognition she deserves, public recognition, in recognition of.
It also means knowing somebody or something when you see it: instant recognition, beyond recognition, facial recognition. In diplomacy, recognition is a state formally accepting another state or government, which has real legal consequences. Note recognise, the verb; and that changed beyond recognition is one of the commonest phrases in English about places and people.
1nounrecognitionBeing noticed and praised for what you did.
“The recognition came about thirty years too late.”
2nounknowingKnowing somebody or something when you see them.
“There was a flicker of recognition and nothing more.”
recognition is a knowing or acknowledging.
Latin recognitio comes from recognoscere — re-, again, plus cognoscere, to know. Recognising something is knowing it again, which is exactly what the word describes.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵneh₃-
Latin
recognitiōnem
Middle French
recognicion
Middle English
recognicion
English, today
recognition
Middle English recognicion, from Middle French recognicion, recognition and its etymon Latin recognitiōnem (accusative of recognitiō), from recognitus, past participle of recognōscō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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