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Consequential vs Momentous - What's the difference?

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Consequential is a related term of momentous.


As adjectives the difference between consequential and momentous

is that consequential is following as a result while momentous is outstanding in importance, of great consequence.

consequential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • following as a result
  • having significant consequences; of importance
  • something which is important or significant
  • someone who is self-important
  • * '>citation

    • Synonyms

    * considerable * important

    Antonyms

    * inconsequential

    See also

    * consequentiality (noun) * consequentialness (noun) * consequentially (adverb)

    momentous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
  • * 1725 , , Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business :
    • The reason why I did not publish this book till the end of the last sessions of parliament was, because I did not care to interfere with more momentous affairs.
  • * 1831 , , Homeward Bound , ch. 31:
    • "It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."
  • * 1902 , , The End of the Tether , ch. 3:
    • What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.
  • * 2007 July 1, , " Inferior Design," New York Times (retrieved 19 Nov 2013):
    • Natural selection is arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind, because it — alone as far as we know — explains the elegant illusion of design that pervades the living kingdoms and explains, in passing, us.

    Derived terms

    * momentously * momentousness