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Excellence vs Mastery - What's the difference?

excellence | mastery |

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

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * superiority * pre-eminence * perfection * worth * goodness * purity * greatness

    See also

    * par excellence ----

    mastery

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
  • * Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
  • If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
  • , chapter=5, title= 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.}}
  • Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
  • * (w), xxxii. 18
  • The voice of them that shout for mastery .
  • * , ix. 25.
  • Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
  • * (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
  • O, but to have gulled him / Had been a mastery .
  • (label) Contest for superiority.
  • (Holland)
  • (label) A masterly operation; a feat.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
  • I will do a maistrie ere I go.
  • (label) The philosopher's stone.
  • The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
  • * (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
  • He could attain to a mastery in all languages.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.