Aesopian vs Furtive - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between aesopian and furtive

is that aesopian is (not comparable) related to or concerning the greek fabulist aesop while furtive is stealthy.

* * Esopian

(en adjective)

(not comparable) Related to or concerning the Greek fabulist Aesop.

(comparable) Characteristic of Aesop's animal fables.

(comparable) Employing or having an ambiguous or allegorical meaning, especially a political meaning.

* (l), (l)

(en adjective)

stealthy

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31

But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.

* (stealthy) surreptitious * See also

* furtively * furtiveness