Appreciativeness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The character of being appreciative; disposition to recognize excellence.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state or quality of being appreciative.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. warm friendly feelings of gratitude
  • Word Usage
    "There is a good chapter on Bacon, one on inoculation, and several on the Quakers, but on the civil constitution hardly a word of large appreciativeness."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gratitude