Anything vs Anythingism - What's the difference?
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In any way, any extent or any degree.
Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; .
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Someone or something of importance.
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(rare) A nonspecific belief in anything, or that anything goes.
* 1871 , Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a week
* 1880 , The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support
* 1972 , Albert Glover, The mushroom
As nouns the difference between anything and anythingism
is that anything is someone or something of importance while anythingism is a nonspecific belief in anything, or that anything goes.As an adverb anything
is in any way, any extent or any degree.As a pronoun anything
is any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught.anything
English
Adverb
(-)- That isn't anything like a car.
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)No hiding place, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
Derived terms
() * anything else * anything goes * anythingarian * as anything * if anything * not much of anything * not that there's anything wrong with thatNoun
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References
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English
Noun
(-)- Disbelief — active or passive — Deism, Atheism, Pantheism, anythingism ...
- In these days of laxity, and anythingism in religion, even those of whom we might hope better things do not appear exercised, with the apostle Paul, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men.
- The feathers I wore were a borrowed invention I did not truly understand, like Buddhism, Taoism, Tantrism, anythingism ...