Synonyms of the word

appreciation

• n. A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
• n. Accurate perception; true estimation.
• n. A rise in value.

admiration

• n. A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful.
• n. (obsolete) Wonder or questioning, without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject.
• n. (obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

approval

• n. An expression granting permission; an indication of agreement with a proposal; an acknowledgement that…
• n. An expression of favorable acceptance and encouragement; a compliment that also condones.
• n. (especially philately) Something mailed by a seller to a collector to match his stated interests; he can…

approving

• adj. Expressing approbation; commending.
• v. present participle of approve.

blessing

• n. Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
• n. A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
• n. Good fortune.
• n. (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony.
• n. The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.
• n. A thing one is glad of.
• n. A prayer before a meal; grace.
• n. A group of unicorns.

discernment

• n. The ability to distinguish; judgement.
• n. Discrimination.
• n. The ability to distinguish between things.
• n. The ability to perceive differences that exist.
• n. The condition of understanding.
• n. Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
• n. Perceptiveness.
• n. The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
• n. Discretion in judging objectively.

discrimination

• n. Discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between…
• n. The act of recognizing the 'good' and 'bad' in situations and choosing good.
• n. The setting apart of a person or group of people in a negative way, as in being discriminated against.
• n. (sometimes discrimination against) Distinct treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage;…
• n. The quality of being discriminating, acute discernment, specifically in a learning situation; as to show…
• n. That which discriminates; mark of distinction, a characteristic.

grasp

• v. To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
• v. To understand.
• v. To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
• n. Grip.
• n. Understanding.
• n. That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

increase

• v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
• v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
• v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
• n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
• n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

perceptiveness

• n. The state of being perceptive; acumen, discernment, insight.

savvy

• adj. (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
• v. (informal) To understand.
• interj. (informal) Do you understand?
• n. Shrewdness.

secernment

• n. (physiology) The act or process of secreting.

step-up

• adj. That increases in stages.
• adj. (of a transformer etc) That increases a voltage.

taste

• n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
• n. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary,…
• n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality…
• n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
• v. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
• v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
• v. To experience.
• v. To take sparingly.
• v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
• v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

thanks

• interj. Used to express appreciation or gratitude.
• n. plural of thank.
• n. An expression of gratitude.
• n. Grateful feelings or thoughts.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thank.

understanding

• n. (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is…
• n. (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
• n. (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
• n. (countable) An informal contract; mutual agreement.
• n. (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
• n. (uncountable) Sympathy.
• n. All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
• adj. Showing compassion.
• v. present participle of understand.