recognition

• "the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work"
• "she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own"

Synonyms

• acknowledgmentthe state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; a statement acknowledging something or someone
• acknowledgementthe state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; a statement acknowledging something or someone

• "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"
• "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer"

Synonyms

• identificationthe act of designating or identifying something ; evidence of identity; the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established; the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)

• "give her recognition for trying"
• "he was given credit for his work"
• "give her credit for trying"

Synonyms

• creditgive someone credit for something; ascribe an achievement to; accounting: enter as credit; have trust in; approval; money available for a client to borrow ; an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items ; used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise; arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services ; recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work; an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments

• "a growing realization of the risk involved"
• "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"
• "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases"

Synonyms

• realizationcoming to understand something clearly and distinctly; making real or giving the appearance of reality ; a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer ; a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained ; the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer ; something that is made real or concrete
• realisationa musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer ; coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained ; the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer ; making real or giving the appearance of reality ; something that is made real or concrete

• "molecular recognition drives all of biology, for instance, hormone and receptor or antibody-antigen interactions or the organization of molecules into larger biologically active entities"

• "territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991"

• "the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States"

• "he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman"