Exhibition vs Spectacle - What's the difference?
exhibition | spectacle |
An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
A large scale public showing of objects or products.
(UK) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 352:
Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
An exciting exhibition, performance or event.
An embarrassing situation
(usually, in the plural) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
(figuratively) An aid to the intellectual sight.
* Chaucer
(obsolete) A spyglass; a looking-glass.
The brille of a snake.
As nouns the difference between exhibition and spectacle
is that exhibition is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited while spectacle is something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant.exhibition
English
(wikipedia exhibition)Noun
(en noun)- There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
- a boat exhibition
- He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.
Derived terms
* exhibitionism * make an exhibition of oneselfspectacle
Noun
(en noun)- In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
- He made a spectacle out of himself
- Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see.