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Docent vs Nocent - What's the difference?

docent | nocent |

As adjectives the difference between docent and nocent

is that docent is instructive; that teaches while nocent is causing injury; harmful.

As a noun docent

is a teacher or lecturer at some American colleges or universities.

docent

English

(wikipedia docent)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Instructive; that teaches.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A teacher or lecturer at some American colleges or universities.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 1212:
    • Zermelo had been a docent at Göttingen when Kit was there and, like Russell, had been preoccupied with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.
  • (chiefly, US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.
    • The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Louvre.

    Related terms

    * docile * doctor * doctorate * doctrinaire * doctrinal * doctrine * document * indoctrinate

    nocent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Causing injury; harmful.
  • (obsolete) guilty; not innocent
    • 'He is not innocent, whom the kinge iudgeth nocent' (Edwards, Damon and Pythias , 1571)
    (Foxe)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * innocent ----