Meaning of ADMIRATION
| Pronunciation: | | `admu'reyshun
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- [n] a favorable judgment; "a small token in admiration of your works"
- [n] a feeling of delighted approval and liking
- [n] the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
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| | Synonyms: | | appreciation, esteem, wonder, wonderment |
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| | See Also: | | adoration, amazement, Anglophilia, approval, approving, astonishment, awe, blessing, glorification, hero worship, idealisation, idealization, idolisation, idolization, liking | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ad`mi*ra"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. admiratio. See
{Admire}.]
1. Wonder; astonishment. [Obs.]
Season your admiration for a while. --Shak.
2. Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion
excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or
high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a
landscape, of virtue.
3. Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or
pleased surprise; a prodigy.
Now, good Lafeu, bring in the admiration. --Shak.
{Note of admiration}, the mark (!), called also {exclamation
point}.
Syn: Wonder; approval; appreciation; adoration; reverence;
worship.
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| | Definition: | | People will react positively to your success, so dreaming of being admired means
that your achievements will be encouraged and your team will be backing you up. |
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| | Related Terms: | | acceptance, account, adherence, adoration, affection, agape, amaze, amazement, Amor, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, ardency, ardor, astonishment, astoundment, attachment, awe, beguilement, bewilderment, blessing, bodily love, breathless adoration, breathless wonder, brotherly love, caritas, charity, Christian love, conjugal love, consideration, countenance, courtesy, deference, deification, delight, desire, devotion, dumbfoundment, duty, ecstasy, endorsement, Eros, esteem, estimation, exaggerated respect, faithful love, fancy, fascination, favor, favorable vote, fervor, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, great respect, heart, hero worship, high regard, homage, honor, idolatry, idolism, idolization, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, love, lovemaking, married love, marvel, marveling, nod, OK, passion, physical love, Platonic love, pleasure, popular regard, popularity, prestige, puzzlement, rapture, regard, respect, reverence, reverential regard, sanction, seal of approval, sense of mystery, sense of wonder, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, stamp of approval, stupefaction, surprise, tender feeling, tender passion, transport, truelove, uxoriousness, veneration, voice, vote, weakness, wonder, wonderment, worship, yea, yea vote, yearning |
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