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Archetype vs Antecedent - What's the difference?

archetype | antecedent |

As adjectives the difference between archetype and antecedent

is that archetype is archetypal while antecedent is antecedent, preceding.

As nouns the difference between archetype and antecedent

is that archetype is archetype while antecedent is antecedent (any thing that precedes another thing).

archetype

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype
  • (literature) A character, story, or object that is based on a known character, story, or object.
  • An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
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  • (psychology) According to the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.

    • Usage notes

    Traditionally archetype'' refers to the model upon which something is based, but it has also come to mean an example of a personality archetype, particularly a fictional character in a story based on a well-established personality model. In this fashion, a character ''based'' on the Jesus archetype might be referred to as a "Jesus archetype". See ''eponym for a similar usage conflict.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

  • To depict as, model using or otherwise associate a subject or object with an archetype.
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    antecedent

    English

    (wikipedia antecedent)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Earlier, either in time or order.
    • an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood
    an antecedent cause
  • presumptive
    • an antecedent improbability

    Noun

    {{examples-right, sense=linguistics: expression referred to by pronoun, examples= * In “The policeman asked the boy what he was doing.”, the phrase “the boy” is the antecedent of the pronoun “he”. * In the sentence “I saw my girlfriend yesterday wearing her old jacket which is odd because she almost never wears it.”, the phrase “my girlfriend” is the antecedent of “her” and “old jacket” is the antecedent of “it”.}} (en noun)
  • Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
  • An ancestor.
  • (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
  • * Fowler
    • [W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who'' is appropriated to persons, so ''that'' should have been appropriated to things the antecedent of ''that is often personal.
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    • One such condition can be formulated in terms of the
    c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16)
    below:
    (16)    C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS
            An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent
  • (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.
    • (rfex)
  • (math) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a'' in the ratio ''a:b , the other being the consequent.

    • Synonyms

    * (something which precedes) precedent, precursor * (an ancestor) ascendant, ascendent, forebear, forefather, forerunner, predecessor, progenitor

    Antonyms

    * (in logic) consequent, (for sequents) succedent * (in linguistics) anaphor

    Holonyms

    * conditional * See

    See also

    * juxtaposition ----