recognition
The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity.
Example
“He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.”
Other meanings
Acceptance as valid or true.
“The law was a recognition of their civil rights.”
Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
Related words
- allorecognition
- autorecognition
- biorecognition
- catch wreck
- corecognition
- derecognition
- enantiorecognition
- immunorecognition
- irrecognition
- misrecognition
- phosphorecognition
- recognitional
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "recognitiōnem".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “recognition” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.