reckoning
noun
[ ˈrɛk(ə)nɪŋ ]
• the action or process of calculating or estimating something.
• "the sixth, or by another reckoning eleventh, Earl of Mar"
Similar:
calculation,
estimation,
computation,
working out,
summation,
counting,
addition,
total,
tally,
score,
• the avenging or punishing of past mistakes or misdeeds.
• "the fear of being brought to reckoning"
• contention for a place in a team or among the winners of a contest.
• "he has hit the sort of form which could thrust him into the reckoning"
reckon
verb
• establish by calculation.
• "his debts were reckoned at £300,000"
Similar:
calculate,
compute,
work out,
put a figure on,
figure,
number,
quantify,
count (up),
add up,
total,
tally,
tot up,
• consider or regard in a specified way.
• "the event was reckoned a failure"
Similar:
regard as,
consider,
judge,
hold to be,
view,
think of as,
look on as,
deem,
rate,
evaluate,
gauge,
count,
estimate,
repute,
• be of the opinion.
• "he reckons that the army should pull out entirely"
Similar:
believe,
think,
be of the opinion,
be of the view,
be convinced,
suspect,
dare say,
have an idea,
have a feeling,
imagine,
fancy,
guess,
suppose,
assume,
surmise,
conjecture,
consider,
figure,
ween,
Origin:
Old English ( ge)recenian ‘recount, relate’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch rekenen and German rechnen ‘to count (up)’. Early senses included ‘give an account of items received’ and ‘mention things in order’, which gave rise to the notion of ‘calculation’ and hence of ‘being of an opinion’.
