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Conflation vs Amalgamation - What's the difference?

conflation | amalgamation |

As nouns the difference between conflation and amalgamation

is that conflation is a blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry while amalgamation is the process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.

conflation

English

Noun

  • (countable) A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
  • (countable) A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.

    • amalgamation

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia amalgamation) (en noun)
  • The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
  • The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
  • # (specifically) The production of an alloy of mercury and another metal.
  • (obsolete) The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.