Crisis vs Crasis - What's the difference?
crisis | crasis |
A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die.
(psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
(drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
(obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
*, I.iii.1.2:
*:Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis , which they had from the stars and those celestial influences
* 1759 , Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p. 24:
A mixture or combination.
(linguistics) The contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.
* 1861 , William Edward Jelf, Accidence
As nouns the difference between crisis and crasis
is that crisis is a crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point while crasis is (obsolete) one's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.crisis
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(crises)Derived terms
{{der3, crisis management , currency crisis , financial crisis , economic crisis , international crisis , identity crisis , existential crisis , personal crisis , psychological crisis , midlife crisis , quarter-life crisis}}External links
* * English nouns with irregular plurals ----crasis
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(crases) (wikipedia crasis)- This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick''’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of ''Danish blood in his whole crasis
- When in a crasis , a lene consonant