admiration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a favorable judgment

   a small token in admiration of your works

2. 2
   noun

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

   admiration of a war hero

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   a feeling of delighted approval and liking

6. 6
   noun

   the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising

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.