Appreciation vs Blessing - What's the difference?
appreciation | blessing |
A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
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Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.
A rise in value;—opposed to depreciation.
Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
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(paganism) A modern pagan ceremony.
The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.
A thing one is glad of.
A prayer before a meal; grace.
A group of unicorns.
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* 2011 , Suzette Mayr, Monoceros , Coach House Books (2011), ISBN 9781552452417,
As nouns the difference between appreciation and blessing
is that appreciation is appreciation while blessing is some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.appreciation
English
Noun
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?
- His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character. —J. R. Green.
blessing
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
Time To Trash the Intellectual Property System, Says Report", Wired , 11 September 2008:
- And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a blessing of unicorns and one million dollars.
Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last?", The Register , 13 September 2011:
- Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.
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- She just wants to talk to her friends on www.unicornwillsaveus.com or write in her journal or flump on her bedroom floor with her blessing of unicorns: her posters, figurines, stickers, temporary tattoos of anatomically correct unicorns.
