Veneration vs Appreciation - What's the difference?
veneration | appreciation |
The act of venerating or the state of being venerated.
(senseid)Profound reverence, respect or awe.
* 1848 , ,
Religious zeal, idolatry or devotion.
A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
* 2014 , Ian Jack, "
Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.
A rise in value;—opposed to depreciation.
As nouns the difference between veneration and appreciation
is that veneration is veneration while appreciation is appreciation.veneration
English
Noun
(en noun)Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Evans, page 2:
- In Miss Jemima's eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign.
Anagrams
*appreciation
English
Noun
Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
- The English, until relatively recently, seem to have imagined “English” and “British” to be interchangeable, as if Britain was just a bigger England. Our dualism gave us a better appreciation of the nation-state we lived in, though if Britain was a “nation” as well as a “state”, where did that leave Scotland?
- His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character. —J. R. Green.