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Ethos vs Ideology - What's the difference?

ethos | ideology |

As nouns the difference between ethos and ideology

is that ethos is the character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement while ideology is doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.

ethos

English

(wikipedia ethos)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
  • (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.

    • Related terms

    * etheic * ethics * ethogram * ethography * ethoi (hypercorrect) * ethologic * ethological * ethologist * ethology * * ethopoetic * ethosed * ethoses (non-standard)

    See also

    * logos * pathos

    Anagrams

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    ideology

    English

    (wikipedia ideology)

    Noun

    (ideologies)
  • Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
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  • The study of the origin and nature of ideas.

    • Usage notes

    Original meaning “study of ideas” (following the etymology), today primarily used to mean “doctrine”. For example “communist ideology” generally refers to “communist doctrine”; study of communist ideas instead being “communist philosophy”, or more clearly “philosophy of communism”; only rarely “ideology of communism”.

    Related terms

    * ideologic * ideological * ideologically * ideologist * ideologue

    References

    * * English words suffixed with -ology