existimation means opinion, esteem or judgment. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Latin existimatio.
noun
- Opinion, esteem or judgment.“Then if a man in such a company, where some disdain and have despite at other men's inventions, and some count their own best, if among such men (I say) a man should bring forth anything, that he hath read done in times past, or that he hath seen done in other places: there the hearers fare as though the whole existimation of their wisdom were in jeopardy to be overthrown, and that ever after they”