Historic vs Histrionic - What's the difference?
historic | histrionic |
Having importance or significance in history.
Belonging to the past; historical (see note below).
Of, or relating to actors or acting.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.
* 1848 , , Oliver Goldsmith'' (review of John Forster, ''Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith''), ''The North British Review , Volume 9: May—August,
* 1990 , , The Great Terror: A Reassessment , 2008,
* 2009 , Peter Bondanella, A History of Italian Cinema ,
* 2010 , Joan Lachkar, How to Talk to a Borderline ,
* 2011 , Neel Burton, Psychiatry ,
As adjectives the difference between historic and histrionic
is that historic is having importance or significance in history while histrionic is of, or relating to actors or acting.historic
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Alternative forms
* historick (obsolete) * hystoric (nonstandard)Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* The rule that "an" is used before vowel sounds is confounded by the wide variety in pronunciation (particularly regional) of the sometimes-silent h''. For example, in the United States, the ''h generally is not silent. (See s for more details.) * Modern convention makes a distinction between historic''''' and '''''historical''''', although the two words are variants and have shared the same meanings for much of their history. '''''Historic''''' means "very important in history or having a long history", while '''''historical''''' refers to people who lived or events that occurred in the past, or refers to things that are connected with or found in the past. For example, a '''historic event''' is an important event of history, while a ' historical event is any event that happened in the past, whether important or not. *: July 4, 1776 is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day. *: The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.Antonyms
* unhistoricDerived terms
* historical * posthistoricReferences
*Words @ Random*
The American Heritage® Book of English Usage.*
Paul Brians Common Errors in English Usage*
English Plus+*
The UVic Writer's Guide*
Garbl's Writing Center
Anagrams
*histrionic
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Alternative forms
* histrionick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
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page 414,
- Trotsky's vanity, unlike Stalin's, was, practically speaking, frivolous. There was something more histrionic about it. He had shown himself no less ruthless than Stalin. Indeed, at the time of the Civil War, he had ordered executions on a greater scale than Stalin or anyone else.
page 220,
- This lens (known as a carello ottico'' in Italian and a ''travelling optique'' in French) is used sparingly but effectively in ''General Della Rovere during the important bombardment scene inside the prison, which introduces De Sica's most histrionic speech.
page 124,
- So, as he keeps her endlessly frustrated, she becomes more histrionic ; and as she projects her emotional, “dirty” parts onto him, he becomes more anal and compulsive.
page 138,
- A vicious circle may form in which the more rejected they feel the more histrionic' they become, and the more ' histrionic they become the more rejected they feel.
