Recognition is the act of identifying someone or something as already known, or the act of noticing and praising someone’s efforts or achievements.
From Latin *recognitio* meaning ‘examination, acknowledgment’, from *recognoscere* (to know again), from *re-* (again) + *cognoscere* (to know). It literally means ‘knowing again.’
Facial recognition is your brain ‘knowing again’ a face it has seen before. Emotional recognition—like thanking someone—does the same thing for people’s efforts: it says, ‘I see you; I know what you did.’
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