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Classification vs Coterie - What's the difference?

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Classification is a related term of coterie.


As nouns the difference between classification and coterie

is that classification is the act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc, according to some common relations or attributes while coterie is a circle of people who associate with one another.

classification

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1937-1952 , author=Jorge Luis Borges , title=Other Inquisitions citation , passage=On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a verfy fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.}}
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • I’m using mathesis' — a universal science of '''measurement''' and '''order''' …
    And there is also '''taxinomia''' a principle of ''''''classification'''''' and ordered '''tabulation'''.
    Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
    Western reason had entered the '     age of judgement     .

    Derived terms

    * classification scheme

    Related terms

    * class * classic * classify * category * categorize * segment

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    coterie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A circle of people who associate with one another.
    • The new junior employee joined our merry after-hours coterie .
  • An exclusive group of people, who associate closely for a common purpose; a clique.
    • A tightly-knit coterie of executive powerbrokers made all the real decisions in the company.
  • A communal burrow of prairie dogs.
    • The coterie was located in the middle of our wheat field.
  • * 2000 , Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis , page 473:
    • The population of each coterie' constantly changes over a period of a few months or years, by death, birth, and emigration. But the ' coterie boundary remains about the same, being learned by each prairie dog born into it.
  • * 2001 , Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Emperor's Embrace: The Evolution of Fatherhood :
    • The odd part of prairie dog life is that this friendly state exists only among the members of each coterie', and does not extend between ' coteries .
  • * 2009 , Miriam Aronin, The Prairie Dog's Town: A Perfect Hideaway , page 22:
    • The Town Grows Young prairie dogs in a coterie are brothers and sisters. They have the same father and sometimes the same mother. To find a mate from a different family, young prairie dogs must travel to a new area.