Converse vs Conversation - What's the difference?
converse | conversation |
(formal) To talk; to engage in conversation.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with .
* Thomson
* Sir Walter Scott
* Wordsworth
(obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
* John Locke
Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
* 1728 , (Edward Young), Love of Fame, the Universal Passion , Satire V, On Women, lines 44-46:
* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umerleigh’, The Toys of Peace'', Penguin 2000 (''Complete Short Stories ), p. 405:
Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
The opposite or reverse.
(logic) Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true."''
equivalently: ''given that "All Xs are Ys", then "All Ys are Xs" .
Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.
* 1699 , ,
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
* , chapter=12
, title= (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
(obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XI:
(archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:
(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
* 1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury :
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 333:
(computing) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
(nonstandard, ambitransitive) To engage in conversation (with).
* 1983 , James Frederick Mason, Hélène Joséphine Harvitt, The French review
* 1989 , Robert L Gale, A Henry James encyclopedia
* 2002 , Georgie Nickell, I Only Smoke on Thursdays
Conversation is a derived term of converse.
Conversation is a related term of converse.
In obsolete terms the difference between converse and conversation
is that converse is to have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study while conversation is sexual intercourse.As verbs the difference between converse and conversation
is that converse is to talk; to engage in conversation while conversation is to engage in conversation (with).As nouns the difference between converse and conversation
is that converse is (noun_discourse) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat while conversation is expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking.As an adjective converse
is opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.converse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(convers)- Companions / That do converse and waste the time together.
- We had conversed so often on that subject.
- To seek the distant hills, and there converse / With nature.
- Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.
- But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
- according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety
Derived terms
* conversationNoun
(en noun)- Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day [...].
- In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse .
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(-)- a converse proposition
Noun
(en noun)equivalently: ''given that "All Xs are Ys", then "All Ys are Xs" .
- All trees are plants, but the converse , that all plants are trees, is not true.
Derived terms
* converselyAnagrams
* * English heteronyms ----conversation
English
(wikipedia conversation)Noun
(en noun)Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation , grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
- Yt chaunsed thatt a whole yere they had their conversacion with the congregacion there, and taught moche people insomoche thatt the disciples off Antioche we the fyrst that wer called Christen.
- There are many that take no heed what happeneth to others by bad conversation , and therefore overthrow themselves in the same manner through their own fault, not foreseeing dangers manifest.
- (Ariadne)quitted her Lover (Theseus), for the tumultuous Conversation of (Bacchus).
- The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof.
Synonyms
* (expression and exchange of ideas through talking) banter, chat, chinwag, dialogue, discussion, interlocution, powwow, table talkDerived terms
* conversational * conversation pieceUsage notes
* To make conversation means to start a conversation with someone with no other aim than to talk and break the silence. * To have' a conversation, and to ' hold a conversation, both mean to converse. * SeeVerb
(en verb)- Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values...
- ...he has breakfasted me, dined me, conversationed me, absolutely caressed me. He has been really most kind and paternal...
- After all this conversationing , Scottie, my usual dance partner, was getting antsy and wanted to dance.