Values

val·ue  (vly)

n.

1. An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.

2. Monetary or material worth: the fluctuating value of gold and silver.

3. Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit: the value of an education.

4. A principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable: "The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility" (Jonathan Alter).

5. Precise meaning or import, as of a word.

6. Mathematics An assigned or calculated numerical quantity.

7. Music The relative duration of a tone or rest.

8. The relative darkness or lightness of a color. See Table at color.

9. Linguistics The sound quality of a letter or diphthong.

10. One of a series of specified values: issued a stamp of new value.

tr.v. val·ued, val·u·ing, val·ues

1. To determine or estimate the worth or value of; appraise.

2. To regard highly; esteem. See Synonyms at appreciate.

3. To rate according to relative estimate of worth or desirability; evaluate: valued health above money.

4. To assign a value to (a unit of currency, for example).

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[Middle English, from Old French, from feminine past participle of valoir, to be strong, be worth, from Latin valre; see wal- in Indo-European roots.]

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valu·er n.

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Values

See also ethics; philosophy

axiology

Philosophy. the study of values, as those of aesthetics, ethics, or religion. — axiologist, n. — axiological, adj.

floccinaucinihilipilification

the categorizing of something as valueless trivia.

timology

the theory or doctrine of values.

Thesaurus

Noun

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values - beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something); "he has very conservatives values" belief - any cognitive content held as true