Value
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- overrated, underrated
- When culture can be bought and sold, taste becomes an increasingly useful social marker. It was commerce that gave 'culture' to the middle classes, but commerce could also sully it. So the Georgians set about building a national culture - from the plays of Shakespeare to the music of Handel - that only the qualified could properly enjoy. As this culture widened, paradoxically the separation of high and low ('polite' and 'vulgar') sharpened. -- John Mullan
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
- The Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
- The degree of importance you give to something.
- The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
- He tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices.
- Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
- The exact value of pi can never be computed.
Value can refer to:
- Value (personal and cultural) -- the principles, standards, or quality which guides human actions
- Value (economics) -- the market worth or estimated worth of commodities, services, assets, or work.
- Value theory -- in ethics, aesthetics and other evaluative matters
- Value (semiotics)
See also
- Artistic merit
- Anthropological theories of value
- Theory of value for more general discussions of economic value.
- Moral character
Synonyms
- (quality that renders something desirable) worth
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