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Compendious vs Compend - What's the difference?

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Compend is a related term of compendious.



As an adjective compendious

is containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized.

As a noun compend is

a compendium; an epitome; a summary.

compendious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
  • briefly describing a body of knowledge
  • Anagrams

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    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.