Distraction vs Extinction - What's the difference?
distraction | extinction |
Something that distracts.
*{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 The process of being distracted.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
Mental disorder; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
* Richard Baxter
The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Donald Worster
, title=A Drier and Hotter Future
, volume=100, issue=1, page=70
, magazine=
(astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
As nouns the difference between distraction and extinction
is that distraction is something that distracts while extinction is the action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.distraction
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“… This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, …”}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
- It's true that the Copernican Systeme introduceth distraction in the universe of Aristotle.
- if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction , it is no oath, and so not obligatory.
References
* ----extinction
English
(wikipedia extinction)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions , radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}