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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and bluestocking

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while bluestocking is a scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    bluestocking

    English

    (wikipedia bluestocking)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1896, title=The great didactic of John Amos Comenius
    • , author=Maurice Walter Keatinge (tr.), original=Didactica Magna, by=(John Amos Comenius) , location=London, publisher=Adam and Charles Black , passage=And let none cast in my teeth
  • *
  • *:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
  • *{{quote-book, year=2001, first=Louise Anderson, last=Allen, location=Columbia
    • , publisher=University of South Carolina Press, isbn=9781570033704, ol=8695302M , title= A Bluestocking in Charleston: The Life and Career of Laura Bragg , passage=Bragg was a Massachusetts-born bluestocking , a New Woman of the Progressive Era who changed not only the cultural face of Charleston but also the nation's approach to museum education.}}
  • *{{quote-news, date=2003-10-05, first=Brooke, last=Allan, newspaper=The New York Times
    • , issn=0362-4331, title= The Surveyor of Customs , passage = The artist who created strong, passionate, brilliant heroines turns out to have disapproved of bluestockings and refused to educate his own intelligent daughters.}}