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Albinism vs Alpinism - What's the difference?

albinism | alpinism |

As nouns the difference between albinism and alpinism

is that albinism is congenital lack of melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); the condition of being albino while alpinism is (sometimes capitalized) mountain climbing, especially in the alps.

albinism

English

(wikipedia albinism)

Noun

  • Congenital lack of melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); the condition of being albino.

    • Synonyms

    * albinoism

    Related terms

    * albino

    See also

    * axanthism * leucism * melanism * vitiligo English words suffixed with -ism

    alpinism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (sometimes capitalized) Mountain climbing, especially in the Alps.
  • * 1912 , "New Maps," Bulletin of the American Geographical Society , vol. 44, no. 7, p. 558,
  • *:. . . our rapidly increasing knowledge of the Rocky Mountains of Canada for which geography is so greatly indebted to alpinism .

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    * English words suffixed with -ism