Dictionary Definition
appreciation
Noun
1 understanding of the nature or meaning or
quality or magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of
accounting practices" [syn: grasp, hold]
2 delicate discrimination (especially of
aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his
rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in
bad taste" [syn: taste,
discernment,
perceptiveness]
3 an expression of gratitude; "he expressed his
appreciation in a short note"
4 a favorable judgment; "a small token in
admiration of your works" [syn: admiration]
5 an increase in price or value; "an appreciation
of 30% in the value of real estate" [ant: depreciation]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Compare with French appréciation.Noun
- A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
- Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of
the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.
- His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character. —J. R. Green.
- A rise in value;—opposed to depreciation.
Translations
A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth,
weight, etc.; recognition of excellence
- German: Anerkennung, Würdigung, Dankbarkeit, Wertschätzung
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: apreciação
- Sorani: تهقدیر
Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an
appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of
colors
- German: Beurteilung, Würdigung, Wertschätzung
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: apreciação
- Sorani: تهقدیر
A rise in value;—opposed to
depreciation
- German: Wertzunahme
- Portuguese: apreciação
Extensive Definition
Appreciation is a term used in accounting relating to the
increase in value of an asset. In this sense it is the
reverse of depreciation, which
measures the fall in value of assets over their normal
life-time.
Appreciation is a rise of a currency in a floating exchange
rate.
In times of high inflation, appreciation will
be common to all balance
sheet assets. Generally, the term is reserved for property or, more specifically,
land and buildings. In any viable modern economy, such property
tends to increase in value over the years - if only because of the
scarcity of usable land
forces its price in a
competitive situation. However, this belief has often caused
speculative
bubbles to arise.
There are considerable difficulties in assessing
the increase in value of any particular asset. This is principally
because of the variety of interpretations that can be attached to
the word value
itself and due to the various instruments and methods used in the
valuation process.
Appreciation is also a term meaning an expression
of gratitude.
See also
External links
- Yee, Kenton K., "Opportunities Knocking: Residual Income Valuation of an Adaptive Firm" . Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 225-266, Summer 2000.
appreciation in Czech: Apreciace
appreciation in Polish: Aprecjacja
pieniądza
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
acceptance, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acknowledgment, addition, admiration, admission, adoration, advance, aggrandizement, allowance, amplification, analyzing, apotheosis, apperception, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation of
differences, appreciativeness,
approbation,
approval, artistic
judgment, ascent,
assessing, assessment, augmentation, avowal, awareness, awe, ballooning, bloating, blurb, boom, boost, breathless adoration,
broadening, buildup, cognition, cognizance, commendation, comprehension, concession, confession, connoisseurship,
consciousness,
consideration,
courtesy, crescendo, critical niceness,
criticalness,
declaration,
deference, deification, delicacy, development, discriminating
taste, discriminatingness,
discrimination,
discriminativeness,
duty, edema, elevation, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, esteem, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluation, evaluative
criticism, exaggerated respect, expansion, extension, fastidiousness, favor, feel, feeling, fine palate, finesse, flood, gain, gauging, good word, gratefulness, gratitude, great respect,
greatening, growth, gush, hero worship, high regard,
hike, homage, honor, honorable mention, hype, idolatry, idolization, increase, increment, inflation, insight, judiciousness, jump, knowledge, leap, making distinctions, measurement, mindfulness, mounting, multiplication, niceness
of distinction, nicety,
noesis, note, notice, obligation, opinion, palate, perception, plug, prestige, productiveness, profession, proliferation, promotion, puff, raise, ranking, rating, realization, reckoning, recognition, refined
discrimination, refined palate, refinement, regard, respect, reverence, reverential regard,
rise, salvo, selectiveness, sense, sense of obligation,
sensibility,
sensitivity,
snowballing,
spread, subtlety, surge, swelling, tact, tactfulness, taste, thankfulness, thanks, tribute, tumescence, understanding, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, valuation, valuing, veneration, view, waxing, weighing, widening, worship