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Excellence vs Arete - What's the difference?

excellence | arete |

As a proper noun excellence

is a title of honor or respect; more common in the form excellency.

As a noun arete is

virtue, excellence or arete can be .

excellence

English

(wikipedia excellence)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
  • Something in which one excels.
  • An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

    • Synonyms

    * superiority * pre-eminence * perfection * worth * goodness * purity * greatness

    See also

    * par excellence ----

    arete

    English

    Alternative forms

    * arete

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) A very thin ridge of rock.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 88:
    • In his old department in Zürich, they sit in glass cases: models to the life of the peaks he had studied, with the strata painted beautifully and accurately, passing over arête and valley alike.

    Anagrams

    * ----