appraisal - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From appraise + -al.

appraisal (countable and uncountable, plural appraisals)

  1. The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
    • 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 47:
      She hated that silent appraisal, watching someone compare her to a version that she might have been.
  2. A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.