As nouns the difference between epitome and compend
is that epitome is the embodiment or encapsulation of while compend is a compendium; an epitome; a summary.
epitome
English
Noun
(
wikipedia epitome)
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en-noun)
(of a class of items) The embodiment or encapsulation of.
(of a class of items) A representative example.
(of a class of items) The height; the best.
(of a written document) A brief summary.
Usage notes
The sense ‘the height, the best’ is considered incorrect by some; instead, `pinnacle' may be preferred.
Synonyms
* (an embodiment of) in a nutshell (modern idiom), synopsis
* (the best) greatest
* (a summary) abstract, synopsis
Antonyms
* antithesis
Derived terms
* epitomize
* epitomic
* epitomical
Related terms
* epitomator
* epitomist
* epitomizer
External links
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compend
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
* (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- the man being only a sort of compend of the globe with its centrifugence and centripetence, with its chemistry, with its polarity, with its undulation.
Related terms
* compendious
* compendium
External links
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