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Gratitude's deadbeat sibling, noticing everything wrong and nothing that works.
means The failure to recognize or value something good — effort, kindness, or quality that gets overlooked instead of acknowledged.
from Built from un- (not) plus appreciation, itself from Latin appretiare, 'to set a price on' — from ad- (to) and pretium (price, value). The root sense was literally about assessing worth; over time 'appreciate' stretched from pricing goods to recognizing value of any kind, emotional or otherwise. 'Unappreciation' is simply the negation bolted on, a straightforward later formation naming the absence of that recognition rather than inheriting any colorful story of its own.
- relationship killer
- ranked above cheating in many breakup surveys
- brain default
- negativity bias makes neglect easier than noticing
- workplace cost
- top reason employees quit, above pay
- silent type
- rarely loud, just steadily withholds a simple thanks