Characteristic vs Owndom - What's the difference?
characteristic | owndom |
Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
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, title= a distinguishable feature of a person or thing
(mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm
(nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc)
(algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself in order to yield that field's zero, or, if that minimum natural number does not exist, then (the integer) zero.
Property.
*1980 , John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey :
*1895 , Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society :
*1876 , The Musical World:
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*1894 , Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles :
Control of one's self; self-mastery.
As nouns the difference between characteristic and owndom
is that characteristic is a distinguishable feature of a person or thing while owndom is property.As an adjective characteristic
is being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.characteristic
English
(wikipedia characteristic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Synonyms
* distinctive * exclusive * idiosyncratic * indicative * representative * signature * specific * typicalAntonyms
* uncharacteristic * untypicalDerived terms
* characteristic function * characteristicnessNoun
(en noun)- A field's characteristic, if non-zero, must be a prime number.
Synonyms
* attribute * idiosyncrasy * mannerism * quality * tendency * trademark * trait * See alsoDerived terms
* defining characteristicSee also
* mantissaExternal links
* *owndom
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom .
- The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.
- 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 [...]"
