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Disruptive vs Invasive - What's the difference?

disruptive | invasive |

As adjectives the difference between disruptive and invasive

is that disruptive is causing disruption or unrest while invasive is that invades a foreign country using military force.

As a noun invasive is

an invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.

disruptive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing disruption or unrest.
    • Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.
  • Causing major change, as in a market.
  • * 2005 , Karl D. Schubert, CIO Survival Guide (page 222)
    • companies tend to lose their leadership positions to companies that enter the market with a disruptive technology or market change.

    invasive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That invades a foreign country using military force.
  • (of a plant or animal) That grows in environments which do not harbor natural enemes, often to the detriment of native species or of food or garden flora and fauna.
  • (medicine) (of a carcinoma etc'') That invades healthy tissue; (''of a procedure ) in which part of the body is entered
  • Intrusive on one's privacy.

    • Derived terms

    * invasively * invasiveness * noninvasive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.
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