Excellence vs Mastery - What's the difference?
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The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
Something in which one excels.
An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
* Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
* (w), xxxii. 18
* , ix. 25.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
(label) Contest for superiority.
(label) A masterly operation; a feat.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
(label) The philosopher's stone.
The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
* (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
As nouns the difference between excellence and mastery
is that excellence is the quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue while mastery is the position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.As a proper noun Excellence
is a title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.excellence
English
(wikipedia excellence)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* superiority * pre-eminence * perfection * worth * goodness * purity * greatnessSee also
* par excellence ----mastery
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en-noun)- If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
- The voice of them that shout for mastery .
- Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
- O, but to have gulled him / Had been a mastery .
- (Holland)
- I will do a maistrie ere I go.
- He could attain to a mastery in all languages.
- The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.