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Deteriorate vs Primitivism - What's the difference?

deteriorate | primitivism |

As a verb deteriorate

is to make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.

As a noun primitivism is

the state or quality of being primitive.

deteriorate

English

Verb

(deteriorat)
  • To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
    • to deteriorate the mind
  • * Southey
    • The art of war, like every other art, ecclesiastical architecture alone excepted, was greatly deteriorated during those years of general degradation
  • To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Paul Fletcher , title=Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=It was turning into an abysmal afternoon for Newcastle and it deteriorated further when Tiote saw red for his challenge on Jon Ashton. }}

    Related terms

    * deterioration * deteriorative * deteriorable

    Synonyms

    * worsen

    Antonyms

    * ameliorate * better * improve

    primitivism

    English

    Noun

  • The state or quality of being primitive
  • The opinion that life was better or more moral among primitive peoples, or among children, and has deteriorated with civilization
  • Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 18, author=Ben Rayner, title=Ben Rayner's reasons to live, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=Exuberant in its primitivism , High Kicks has a joyous, slightly naive spark that sometimes evokes the sort of tuneful messes to which Calvin Johnson's name is often attached. }}

    Related terms

    *primitivist

    See also

    *(wikipedia "primitivism")