Literature vs Cunning - What's the difference?
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Literature is a related term of cunning. As nouns the difference between literature and cunning is that literature is the body of all written works while cunning is (obsolete) knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge). As an adjective cunning is sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
literature Alternative forms
* literatuer (obsolete)
Noun
( en-noun)
The body of all written works.
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
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- The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
Written fiction of a high standard.
- However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature , because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008
Meronyms
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Related terms
* letter
* literal
* literacy
* literate
* literary
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cunning English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cunning, kunning, konnyng, alteration of earlier (etyl) cunninde, kunnende, cunnand, from (etyl) cunnende, present participle of . More at (l), (l).
Adjective
( en adjective)
Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
* South
- They are resolved to be cunning ; let others run the hazard of being sincere.
(obsolete) Skillful, artful.
* Bible, Genesis xxv. 27
- Esau was a cunning hunter.
* Bible, Exodus xxxviii. 23
- a cunning workman
* Shakespeare
- ''Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white / Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
(obsolete) Wrought with, or exibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious.
- cunning work
* Spenser
- Over them Arachne high did lift / Her cunning web.
(US, colloquial, rare) Cute, appealing.
- a cunning little boy
- (Bartlett)
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) cunning, kunnyng, partially from (etyl) *.
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).
Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
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- indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate.
Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit.
The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
- the cunning of the fox or hare
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