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Continent vs Continentality - What's the difference?

continent | continentality |

As nouns the difference between continent and continentality

is that continent is land (as opposed to the water) while continentality is the condition of being a continent.

As an adjective continent

is exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one's bodily needs or passions, especially sex.

As a proper noun Continent

is the Old World.

continent

English

(wikipedia continent)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Land (as opposed to the water).
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
    • The carkas with the streame was carried downe, / But th'head fell backeward on the continent .
  • A large contiguous landmass considered independent of its islands, peninsulas etc. Specifically, the Old World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa. See the Continent.
  • Each of the main continuous land-masses on the earth's surface, now generally regarded as seven in number, including their related islands, continental shelves etc.
    • Derived terms
    * the Continent * continental * supercontinent
    See also
    *
    Hyponyms
    * Africa * America * Antarctica * Asia * Australia * Europe * Eurasia * Gondwana * Laurasia * North America * Oceania * Pangaea * South America

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) continent, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one's bodily needs or passions, especially sex.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 119:
    • A celibate himself, he was of the opinion that marriage was something of a concession to human frailty, to save from fornication those who could not be continent , so it was better to marry than to burn with lust.
  • Not interrupted; connected; continuous.
    • a continent fever
  • * Berrewood
    • The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disjoined by sea of all that coast.
  • (obsolete) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Antonyms
    * incontinent

    continentality

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia continentality)
  • (uncountable) The condition of being a continent
  • (countable) The degree to which the climate of a place is affected by a large land mass