1. recognition

noun. ['ˌrɛkəgˈnɪʃən, ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən'] the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged.

Rhymes with Recognition

• predisposition
• juxtaposition
• retransmission
• presupposition
• decomposition
• statistician
• reimposition
• redeposition
• redefinition
• precondition
• pediatrician
• obstetrician
• mathematician
• malnutrition
• geriatrician
• fondkommission
• extradition
• transmission
• superstition
• requisition
• recondition
• proposition
• premonition
• preignition
• inquisition
• exposition
• expedition
• electrician
• disposition
• dimunition

How do you pronounce recognition?

Pronounce recognition as ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən.

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Sentences with recognition

1. Noun, singular or mass
It is the duty of an assistant manager to formulate recognition programs that reward excellent performances.

Quotes about recognition

1. To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

2. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
- Alexander Smith

3. The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
- John Desmond Bernal

2. recognition

noun. ['ˌrɛkəgˈnɪʃən, ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən'] the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering.

3. recognition

noun. ['ˌrɛkəgˈnɪʃən, ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən'] approval.

4. recognition

noun. ['ˌrɛkəgˈnɪʃən, ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən'] coming to understand something clearly and distinctly.

5. recognition

noun. ['ˌrɛkəgˈnɪʃən, ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən'] designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body.

6. recognition

noun. ['ˌrɛkəgˈnɪʃən, ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən'] an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid.

7. recognition

noun. ['ˌrɛkəgˈnɪʃən, ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən'] the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country.

8. recognition

noun. ['ˌrɛkəgˈnɪʃən, ˌrɛkɪgˈnɪʃən'] (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape.