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Compend vs Synopsis - What's the difference?

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Compend is a related term of synopsis.


As nouns the difference between compend and synopsis

is that compend is a compendium; an epitome; a summary while synopsis is synopsis.

compend

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
  • * (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
  • the man being only a sort of compend of the globe with its centrifugence and centripetence, with its chemistry, with its polarity, with its undulation.

    synopsis

    Noun

    (synopses)
  • A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
  • (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.
  • Synonyms

    * (brief summary): abridgment, abstract, conspectus, outline, overview, summary

    See also

    * bird's-eye view