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aitheantas — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • acquaintance noun A person you know slightly, but who is not a close friend.
  • identification noun A document that proves who someone is.
  • recognition noun The act of identifying someone or something as already known.

Senses

aitheantas is used for these senses in English:

  • acquaintance (uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship. [from 12th c.]
  • identification (broadly, often) The combination of identifying (which one, which thing) and validating the identity (proving or confirming it); identifying and authenticating viewed as a unitary concept in cognition.
  • recognition The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).

acquaintance — full definition

  1. noun A person you know slightly, but who is not a close friend.
  2. noun A slight or general knowledge of something.

identification — full definition

  1. noun A document that proves who someone is.
  2. noun The act or process of establishing what or who something or someone is.
  3. noun A strong sense of connection or shared feeling with a person, group, or cause.

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