Appreciation vs Interpretation - What's the difference?
appreciation | interpretation |
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.
(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
(countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
(uncountable) The power of explaining.
(countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
(countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
(countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
(countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
As nouns the difference between appreciation and interpretation
is that appreciation is a just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence while interpretation is an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.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.
interpretation
English
Noun
- the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
- Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''