The phrase "a kind of recognition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific type or form of acknowledgment or awareness regarding something or someone.
Example: "The award was not just a trophy; it was a kind of recognition of her years of hard work and dedication."
Alternatives: "a form of acknowledgment" or "a type of validation."
The association with Madonna vaulted him to a kind of recognition rare for a clothing designer.
But Cunningham too had gained a kind of recognition that he had not received at home.
Meeting my wife [Emma Kitchener] wasn't love at first sight so much as a kind of recognition.
"The city and the island need a kind of recognition of their significance," said Ms. Dunham, who is 94, in a telephone interview from the United States.
The other part is the opportunity: that they would get a broader understanding with us, a kind of recognition of Iran, of the preëminence of Iran.
She just stops a moment, staring, and though she's thirty feet away I can see a kind of recognition settle into her features, and it has to do with the way Allison is standing there beside me, as if for a portrait or an illustration in a book on family planning, the XY chromosomes and the XX.
Among the bill's expansive list of regulations was a requirement that corporations disclose pay ratios between their highest and median pay-level employees--a kind of recognition that excessive executive pay is a major driver of income inequality.
2. Over-excitement coupled with self-deprecation Any time a British person gets any kind of recognition – an Oscar nomination, an invitation to the White House – the British press will react with the squealing excitement of the school dork being asked to the disco by the class hunk.
Christopher Peacocke has argued that the way in which joint attention episodes are shared involves a kind of reciprocal recognition of the other's recognition of one's own attention, and so that it involves a kind of mutual openness that is analogous to the openness of 'common knowledge', as that notion figures in philosophical analyses of communication and convention.
Dionysius' works, therefore, are much less a forgery in the modern sense than an acknowledgement of reception and transmission, namely, a kind of coded recognition that the resonances of any sacred undertaking are intertextual, bringing the diachronic structures of time and space together in a synchronic way, and that this theological teaching, at least, is dialectically received from another.
