Amusement vs Avocation - What's the difference?
amusement | avocation | Synonyms |
(uncountable) Entertainment
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(countable) An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.
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(obsolete) A calling away; a diversion.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 204:
A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit.
* 1934 , Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
*:But yield who will to their separation,
*:My object in living is to unite
*:My avocation and my vocation
*:As my two eyes make one in sight.
That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
Amusement is a synonym of avocation.
As nouns the difference between amusement and avocation
is that amusement is amusement while avocation is (obsolete) a calling away; a diversion.amusement
English
Noun
- This is some form of amusement you're talking about.
avocation
English
(wikipedia avocation)Noun
(en noun)- But though she could neither sleep nor rest in her bed, yet, having no avocation from it, she was found there by her father at his return from Allworthy's, which was not till past ten o'clock in the morning.