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admiration

noun
/ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/UK

Etymology

From Middle English admiracion, borrowed from Middle French admiration, or directly from Latin admīrātiō, from prefix ad- (“to, towards”) + mīrō (“to look at”) + -ātiō. Compare the verb admire, and US dialectal terms miration and mirate.

  1. derived from admīrātiō
  2. derived from admiration
  3. inherited from admiracion

Definitions

  1. A positive emotion including wonder and approbation

    A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful.

    • admiration of a war hero
    • They looked at the landscape in admiration.
    • For in this Instance, Life most exactly resembles the Stage, since it is often the same Person who represents the Villain and the Heroe; and he who engages your Admiration To-day, will probably attract your Contempt To-Morrow.

  2. Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the…

    Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).

    • Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman? Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour Of other your new pranks.
    • And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
    • […] Admiration seized All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend, Wondering;

  3. Cause of admiration

    Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.

    • Now, good Lafeu, Bring in the admiration; that we with thee May spend our wonder too, or take off thine By wondering how thou took’st it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at admiration. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at admiration. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at admiration

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA