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Association vs Athenaeum - What's the difference?

association | athenaeum |

As nouns the difference between association and athenaeum

is that association is the act of associating while athenaeum is an association for the advancement of learning, particularly in the fields of science or literature.

association

English

(wikipedia association)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of associating.
  • The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations —culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
  • (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
  • A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

    • Derived terms

    * guilt by association

    Related terms

    * associate (pos v) * associational (pos a)

    athenaeum

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in the fields of science or literature.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1994, date=June 3, author=Michael Miner, title=Will This Man Save Inland Architect?/A Simple Process, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=A panel of architects who might loosely be described as the local athenaeum of their profession are awaiting, anxiously, the next edition of the bimonthly journal that bears their names. }}
  • A building for storing books or newspapers; a library, reading room etc.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Christopher Morley, title=Plum Pudding, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And this, too, may have been not unconnected with the gracious influence of the other sex as exhibited in a neighbouring athenaeum ; and was accompanied by a gruesome spate of florid lyrics: some (happily) secret, and some exposed with needless hardihood in a college magazine. }}