Recognition vs Opinion - What's the difference?
recognition | opinion |
the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
an awareness that something observed has been observed before
acceptance as valid or true
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official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country
honour, favourable note, or attention
A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
* 1606 , , I. vii. 32:
* South
(obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
* 1597 , , V. iv. 47:
* Milton
(obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
* 1590 , , V. i. 5:
The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
(European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible
(archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
* 1658', But if (as some '''opinion ) King ''Ahasuerus'' were ''Artaxerxes Mnemon'' [...], our magnified ''Cyrus'' was his second Brother — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)
As nouns the difference between recognition and opinion
is that recognition is the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized while opinion is opinion.recognition
English
Noun
(en-noun)- He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
- Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition ; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.
- The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.
Derived terms
* character recognition * OCR / optical character recognition * speech recognition * voice recognitionSee also
* ("recognition" on Wikipedia) * identification *opinion
English
Noun
(en noun)- I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.
- In my opinion , white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
- Every man is a fool in some man's opinion .
- Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -
- I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
- Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
- Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion .
- This gained Agricola much opinion , who enterprises.
- Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion , and / strange without heresy.
