Congeries vs Melange - What's the difference?
congeries | melange |
A collection or aggregation of disparate items.
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* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 40:
* 2003 , (Roy Porter), Flesh in the Age of Reason , Penguin 2004, p. 243:
* 2005 , (John Banville), The Sea , Picador 2005, p. 216:
As a noun congeries
is a collection or aggregation of disparate items.As a verb melange is
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English
Noun
(congeries)- The world has seen the postal system developed from a congeries of independent and exclusive services into a well-ordered union, of which all countries enjoy the manifold benefits.
- By short cuts known to him, he made his way now through the vast congeries of rooms and staircases to the banqueting-hall, five acres distant on the other side of the house.
- Two of the less irrelevantly moving things - a rather large congeries of iridescent, prolately spheroidal bubbles and a very much smaller polyhedron of unknown colours and rapidly shifting surface angles - seemed to take notice of him and follow him about or float ahead as he changed position...
- The three of them could hardly tell themselves apart, became a sort of congeries of loving emotions, all mutually complementary.
- That whole congeries of values was now in question.
- It was not what I was that I disliked, I mean the singular, essential me - although I grant that even the notion of an essential, singular self is problematic - but the congeries of affects, inclinations, received ideas, class tics, that my birth and upbringing had bestowed on me in place of a personality.