consideration

Meaning

Noun

• The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
• Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
• The tendency to consider others.
• A payment or other recompense for something done.
• A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
• Importance, claim to notice, regard.

Origin

• From Middle English consideracioun, from Old French consideracion, from Latin cōnsīderātiō. Synchronically analyzable as consider + -ation.