Meanings
plural assessments
- countableuncountableAn appraisal or evaluation.
[…] without a stemmatic approach, when this method allows clear results (and there are definitely cases where it does), it is simply impossible to provide any sound assessment of the value of the individual witnesses.
2020, Alessandro Bausi, “7.5 Philological practices: Ethiopic”, in Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4932 more examples
Lenin's retroactive view of history was of course nothing in comparison to the systematic falsification of Stalin's day, when it had to be shown at all costs that the current assessment of individuals and political movements was equally valid for all past years.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 523For every item taken into consideration, the question of its status in terms of history has to be raised; if a word can safely be taken to have been borrowed, it will require an assessment different from that appropriate for a native lexeme.
1989 January 28, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 127
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
nounthe act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinad-
- Proto-Indo-European*sed-
- Proto-Indo-European*sedéh₁yeti
- Proto-Italic*sedēō
- Latinsedeō
- Latinassideō
- Latinassessus
- Medieval Latinassessare
- Old Frenchassesser
- Middle Englishassessen
- Englishassess
- Englishassessment
Translations
Afrikaans belastingaanslag, assessering
- belastingaanslagact of assessing a tax
- assesseringappraisal
Arabic تَقْيِيم, تَقْدِير
- تَقْيِيم (taqyīm)act of assessing a tax
- تَقْدِير (taqdīr)appraisal
- تَقْيِيم (taqyīm)appraisal
Basque ebaluazio, balorazio
- ebaluazioappraisal
- balorazioappraisal
- zehazteappraisal
Bulgarian обла́гане, оце́нка
- обла́гане (oblágane)act of assessing a tax
- оце́нка (océnka)appraisal
- оценя́ване (ocenjávane)appraisal
Catalan avaluació, avaluació
- avaluacióact of assessing a tax
- avaluacióappraisal
- valoracióappraisal
Chinese Mandarin 評價 /评价, 評估 /评估
- 評價 /评价 (píngjià)act of assessing a tax
- 評估 /评估 (pínggū)act of assessing a tax
- 估算 (gūsuàn)act of assessing a tax
- 評價 /评价 (píngjià)appraisal
- 評估 /评估 (pínggū)appraisal
- 估算 (gūsuàn)appraisal
Czech hodnocení
- hodnoceníappraisal
Danish vurdering, bedømmelse
- vurderingappraisal
- bedømmelseappraisal
Dutch schatting, inschatting
- schattingact of assessing a tax
- inschattingact of assessing a tax
- afwegingappraisal
- beoordelingappraisal
- taxatieappraisal
- waarderingappraisal
Finnish verottaminen, taksoittaminen
- verottaminenact of assessing a tax
- taksoittaminenact of assessing a tax
- veromääräact of assessing a tax
- arviointiappraisal
French évaluation, estimation
- évaluationact of assessing a tax
- estimationappraisal
- évaluationappraisal
German Bewertung, Schätzung
- Bewertungact of assessing a tax
- Schätzungact of assessing a tax
- Bewertungappraisal
- Schätzungappraisal
- Begutachtungappraisal
Hebrew אֻמְדָּן
- אֻמְדָּן (umdán)act of assessing a tax
Hindi निर्धारण, मूल्यांकन
- निर्धारण (nirdhāraṇ)act of assessing a tax
- मूल्यांकन (mūlyāṅkan)act of assessing a tax
- मूल्यांकन (mūlyāṅkan)appraisal
- नापजोख (nāpjokh)appraisal
Hungarian kirovás, kivetés
- kirovásact of assessing a tax
- kivetésact of assessing a tax
- adókivetésact of assessing a tax
- értékelésappraisal
- felmérésappraisal
- minősítésappraisal
- véleményezésappraisal
Indonesian penilaian
- penilaianact of assessing a tax
Irish measúnacht
- measúnachtappraisal
Italian accertamento, valutazione
- accertamentoact of assessing a tax
- valutazioneappraisal
Japanese 評価
- 評価 (hyōka)appraisal
Korean 평가
- 평가 (pyeongga)appraisal
Latin taxātiō, aestimātiō
- taxātiōappraisal
- aestimātiōappraisal
Māori arotakenga
- arotakengaappraisal
Polish bilans, ocena
- bilansact of assessing a tax
- ocenaappraisal
Portuguese contabilização, avaliação
- contabilizaçãoact of assessing a tax
- avaliaçãoappraisal
Romanian evaluare, evaluare
- evaluareact of assessing a tax
- evaluareappraisal
Russian оце́нка налогообложе́ния, оце́нка
- оце́нка налогообложе́ния (océnka nalogoobložénija)act of assessing a tax
- оце́нка (océnka)appraisal
- оце́нивание (océnivanije)appraisal
Scottish Gaelic measadh, measadh
- measadhact of assessing a tax
- measadhappraisal
Slovak ocenenie, zhodnotenie
- ocenenieappraisal
- zhodnotenieappraisal
- hodnotenieappraisal
Spanish evaluación, expertización
- evaluaciónact of assessing a tax
- expertizaciónact of assessing a tax
- expertizajeact of assessing a tax
- evaluaciónappraisal
- valoraciónappraisal
Swahili upimaji, upimaji
- upimajiact of assessing a tax
- upimajiappraisal
Swedish värdering, bedömning
- värderingappraisal
- bedömningappraisal
- skattningappraisal
- uppskattningappraisal
- utvärderingappraisal
Ukrainian оподаткува́ння, су́ма оподаткува́ння
- оподаткува́ння (opodatkuvánnja)act of assessing a tax
- су́ма оподаткува́ння (súma opodatkuvánnja)act of assessing a tax
- оці́нка майна (ocínka majna)act of assessing a tax
- оці́нка (ocínka)appraisal
- оці́нювання (ocínjuvannja)appraisal
Cite this entry
assessment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assessment
“assessment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assessment. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “assessment,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assessment.
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