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recognition

designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body; "he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman"

the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; "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"

an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid; "the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States"

approval; "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying"; "the credits were given at the end of the film"

the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country; "territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991"

(biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape; "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"

the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; "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:

• acceptance,
• acclaim,
• acknowledgment,
• action,
• admission,
• allowance,
• anagnorisis,
• angle,
• apperception,
• appreciation,
• appreciativeness,
• architectonics,
• architecture,
• argument,
• assimilation,
• atmosphere,
• attention,
• avowal,
• awareness,
• background,
• benediction,
• blurb,
• boost,
• bringing to light,
• buildup,
• casual discovery,
• catastrophe,
• catching,
• celebrity,
• chance discovery,
• character,
• characterization,
• cognition,
• cognizance,
• color,
• commendation,
• complication,
• concession,
• confession,
• consciousness,
• continuity,
• contrivance,
• credit,
• crediting,
• declaration,
• denouement,
• design,
• detection,
• determination,
• determining,
• development,
• device,
• disclosure,
• discovery,
• distinguishment,
• due,
• eclat,
• episode,
• espial,
• excavation,
• exhumation,
• exposure,
• fable,
• falling action,
• fame,
• famousness,
• figure,
• find,
• finding,
• finding out,
• gimmick,
• glory,
• good word,
• grace,
• honor,
• honorable mention,
• hymn,
• hype,
• identification,
• incident,
• insight,
• invention,
• kudos,
• line,
• local color,
• locating,
• location,
• lucky strike,
• mindfulness,
• mood,
• motif,
• movement,
• mythos,
• name,
• noesis,
• note,
• notice,
• notoriety,
• notoriousness,
• paean,
• perception,
• peripeteia,
• plan,
• plot,
• plug,
• popularity,
• praise,
• prayer of thanks,
• profession,
• promotion,
• publicity,
• puff,
• realization,
• reclame,
• rediscovery,
• reidentification,
• renown,
• report,
• reputation,
• repute,
• revelation,
• right,
• rising action,
• scheme,
• secondary plot,
• sensibility,
• serendipity,
• slant,
• spotting,
• story,
• strike,
• structure,
• subject,
• subplot,
• switch,
• thank offering,
• thank-you,
• thanks,
• thanksgiving,
• the bubble reputation,
• thematic development,
• theme,
• tone,
• topic,
• treasure trove,
• trouvaille,
• trove,
• twist,
• uncovering,
• unearthing,
• vogue,
• what is owing