Actuated vs Driven - What's the difference?
actuated | driven |
(actuate)
To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
* Johnson
To incite to action; to motivate.
* 1748 . HUME, David Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. 2. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 11.
* Addison
Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.
(of snow) Formed into snowdrifts by wind.
As verbs the difference between actuated and driven
is that actuated is (actuate) while driven is .As an adjective driven is
obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.actuated
English
Verb
(head)actuate
English
Verb
(actuat)- Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
- A man in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion.
- Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.