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Belongings vs Owndom - What's the difference?

belongings | owndom |

Owndom is a synonym of belongings.



As nouns the difference between belongings and owndom

is that belongings is plural of lang=en; possessions or personal items while owndom is property.

belongings

English

Noun

(head)
  • ; possessions or personal items.
  • * You may leave your belongings in the cloakroom

    • Usage notes

    * Usually limited to tangible personal property, that is, excluding real estate and financial assets other than currency.

    Synonyms

    * (personal items) personal effects * See also

    owndom

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Property.
  • *1980 , John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey :
    • There must be a tormenting feeling of self-insufficiency in me until I can realize that my self-possession subsumes my all. I must endure my goading ambition until I can acknowledge ownership of all of my owndom .
  • *1895 , Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society :
    • Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom .
  • *1876 , The Musical World:
    • The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.
  • Personal belongings; possessions.
  • A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
  • Ownership; possession.
  • *1894 , Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles :
    • The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom [...]"
  • Control of one's self; self-mastery.