Belonging vs Inclusion - What's the difference?
belonging | inclusion |
(uncountable) The action of the verb to belong .
(countable) (almost always used in the plural ) Something physical that is owned.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, dated) family; relations; household
* Thackeray
(countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
(uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
(countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material,
(countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
As nouns the difference between belonging and inclusion
is that belonging is (uncountable) the action of the verb to belong while inclusion is inclusion.As a verb belonging
is .belonging
English
(wikipedia belonging)Verb
(head)Noun
- I have a feeling of belonging in London.
- A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
- Thyself and thy belongings .
- Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.
- Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons.
Synonyms
* (something physical that is owned) possession, thinginclusion
English
Alternative forms
* enclusionNoun
- The poem was a new inclusion in the textbook.
- The inclusion of the poem added value to the course.