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Compliance vs Pursuance - What's the difference?

compliance | pursuance |

As nouns the difference between compliance and pursuance

is that compliance is an act of complying while pursuance is a search for something; a pursuit or quest.

compliance

English

Noun

  • An act of complying.
  • (uncountable) The state of being compliant.
  • (uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
  • A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
  • (medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
  • (uncountable, business) the department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with

    • Antonyms

    *(act of complying) violation

    pursuance

    English

    Noun

  • A search for something; a pursuit or quest.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.
  • A completion or putting into effect of something already begun; a prosecution.
  • The state of being pursuant; consequence.

    • Quotations

    *1911 — " *:About 1350 she went to Rome, partly to obtain from the pope the authorization of the new order, partly in pursuance of her self-imposed mission to elevate the moral tone of the age.