Compendium vs Epitome - What's the difference?
compendium | epitome |
A short, complete summary; an abstract.
A list or collection of various items.
* 2008 , Caroline Murphy, Murder of a Medici Princess (page 157)
# (label) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
(of a class of items) The embodiment or encapsulation of.
(of a class of items) A representative example.
(of a class of items) The height; the best.
(of a written document) A brief summary.
As nouns the difference between compendium and epitome
is that compendium is a short, complete summary; an abstract while epitome is (of a class of items) the embodiment or encapsulation of.compendium
English
(wikipedia compendium)Noun
(en-noun)- It was this last variety which formed the backbone of the first published Italian compendium of games, Innocenzo Ringhieri's One Hundred Games of Liberality and Ingenuity of 1551, dedicated to Cathérine de' Medici.