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
- noun A person you know slightly, but who is not a close friend.
- noun A slight or general knowledge of something.
identification — full definition
- noun A document that proves who someone is.
- noun The act or process of establishing what or who something or someone is.
- noun A strong sense of connection or shared feeling with a person, group, or cause.