Dense vs Sententious - What's the difference?
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Having relatively high density.
Compact; crowded together.
Thick; difficult to penetrate.
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, title= Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
Obscure, or difficult to understand.
(mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on (dense set)s for mathematical definition.
Of a person, slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
(obsolete) Full of meaning.
Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
Tending to use aphorisms or maxims, especially given to trite moralizing.
Dense is a related term of sententious.
As adjectives the difference between dense and sententious
is that dense is having relatively high density while sententious is (obsolete) full of meaning.dense
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}