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Hommage vs Eulogy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between hommage and eulogy

is that hommage is a homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist while eulogy is an oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.

hommage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=November 29, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=His Master's Vice, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=There's a clip from his Pickup on South Street in Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and extended hommages to other Fuller films in Godard's Breathless and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.) }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002, title=Guido Cavalcanti, author=Maria Luisa Ardizzone, page=150, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=53XLa_9fq_sC&pg=PA150
  • , passage=It is certainly true that Pound wanted to pay hommage to Guido. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 30, author=Anthony Tommasini, title=Doing Everything but Playing the Music, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=The piece is like an hommage to Ives: atmospheric and thickly textured music with multiple elements happening at once. }}

    See also

    * (Hommage)

    Anagrams

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    eulogy

    English

    (wikipedia eulogy)

    Noun

    (eulogies)
  • An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral.
  • Speaking highly of someone; the act of praising or commending someone.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
  • The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies , it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.

    Synonyms

    * panegyric

    Antonyms

    * criticism

    Coordinate terms

    * dirge, elegy, threnody – funeral song * homily – funeral oration by clergy * requiem – music played at a mass to honor a deceased person

    See also

    * elegy – similar-sounding funeral word