Civilization vs Microcivilization - What's the difference?
civilization | microcivilization |
An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.
(uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.
The act or process of civilizing]] or becoming [[civilize, civilized.
The state or quality of being civilized.
(obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised]], as savages or [[barbarian, barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
A tiny civilization.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 4, author=Caroline Weber, title=Tour de France, work=New York Times
, passage=Yet according to Robb, who has written biographies of Victor Hugo, Honor de Balzac and Arthur Rimbaud, these microcivilizations were not formless planetoids waiting to be swallowed by a giant state, and their inhabitants didnt constitute a shapeless mass of human raw material, waiting to be processed by the huge, mutating machine of political interference and turned into the people conveniently known as the French. }}
As nouns the difference between civilization and microcivilization
is that civilization is an organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development while microcivilization is a tiny civilization.As a proper noun civilization
is collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised Worldcivilization
Alternative forms
* civilisation (UK)Noun
(en noun)- the Aztec civilization
- Western civilization
- Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.
- A hermit doesn't much care for civilization .
- I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.
- The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.
- He was a man of great civilization .
Synonyms
* (large-scale stage of societal development) culture, order * (group of countries) sphere * (act of civilizing) education, acculturation * (preferred human society) home, the land of the livingDerived terms
* civilizational * civilizationallyProper noun
(en proper noun)External links
* * *microcivilization
English
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