1) Appreciation 2) Appreciativeness 3) Credit 4) Gratefulness 5) Thankfulness 6) Thanks 1) Appreciation 2) Credit 3) Feeling 4) Feeling of obligation 5) Merit 6) Recognition 7) Sense of obligation 8) Thankfulness 9) Thankfulness and appreciation 10) Thanks 
Gratitude, thankfulness, gratefulness, or appreciation is a feeling or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive. The experience of gratitude has historically been a focus of several world religions, and has been considered extensively by moral philosophers such as Adam Smith. The systematic study of gratitude w...
• (a.) The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.
Grat'i·tude noun [ French gratitude , Late Latin gratitudo , from gratus agreeable, grateful. See Grate , adjective ] The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. &#x...
[n] - a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation
noun a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation; `he was overwhelmed with gratitude for their help`