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Appraisal vs Reckoning - What's the difference?

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Appraisal is a related term of reckoning.


As nouns the difference between appraisal and reckoning

is that appraisal is a judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one while reckoning is the action of calculating or estimating something.

As a verb reckoning is

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appraisal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.

    • Derived terms

    * appraisal theory * overappraisal * quasi-appraisal * underappraisal

    reckoning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of calculating or estimating something.
  • :
  • *
  • *:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
  • (lb) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
  • *1817 , (Walter Scott), :
  • *:So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.
  • An opinion or judgement.
  • The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.

    • Derived terms

    * dead reckoning