Arcane vs Enigma - What's the difference?
arcane | enigma |
Understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
A riddle, or a difficult problem.
As an adjective arcane
is understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.As a proper noun enigma is
a german device used during world war ii to encode strategic messages.arcane
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane' knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.
Synonyms
* esoteric * recondite * clandestineAntonyms
* mundaneReferences
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(wikipedia enigma)Alternative forms
* (chiefly archaic)Noun
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