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Adaptation vs Neotraditional - What's the difference?

adaptation | neotraditional |

As a noun adaptation

is (label) the quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.

As an adjective neotraditional is

presenting a new adaptation of something traditional.

adaptation

Noun

  • (label) The quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.
  • (label) Adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of some thing or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.
  • * {{quote-book, title=, year=1911
  • , passage=ACCLIMATIZATION, the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and at first injurious to them.}}
  • (label) Something which has been adapted; variation.
  • * {{quote-book, author=Frederick Lawton, title=, year=1910
  • , passage=Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.}}

    Derived terms

    {{der3, adaptational , adaptationism , adaptationist}}

    neotraditional

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Presenting a new adaptation of something traditional
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 9, The New York Times, Pop and Rock Listings, New York Times citation
  • , passage=Ricky Scaggs is also a virtuoso of sorts, playing both traditional and neotraditional bluegrass. }}

    Derived terms

    * neotraditionalist * neotraditionally