Noun

A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

* 2014 , Ian Jack, " 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?

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.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.

* {{quote-book, 1904, author=(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), title=(The Return of Sherlock Holmes), chapter=(The Adventure of the Six Napoleons) citation

, passage=Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play. A flush of colour sprang to Holmes's pale cheeks, and he bowed to us like the master dramatist who receives the homage of his audience. It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause . The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.}}