Plural instances of recognizing value or expressing gratitude; feelings of thankfulness or understanding of worth.
From 'appreciation' (Late Latin 'appretiatio') plus the plural suffix '-s'. The noun form emerged in English by the 1700s as both a feeling and a financial concept, tracking both emotional and economic meanings.
Appreciations shows something interesting about how we talk about feelings—we can have multiple appreciations but rarely say 'gratitudes' or 'thankfulness-es,' suggesting we think of appreciation as something that multiplies and branches into different domains.
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