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Salutation vs Honorific - What's the difference?

salutation | honorific |

As nouns the difference between salutation and honorific

is that salutation is a greeting, salute, or address; a hello while honorific is a title. (i.e., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor.

As an adjective honorific is

showing or conferring honour and respect.

salutation

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia salutation)
  • A greeting, salute, or address; a hello.
  • The act of greeting.
  • The title in your name, such as Mr, Mrs, Ms., Dr. or Rev..

    • See also

    * valediction

    honorific

    English

    (wikipedia honorific)

    Alternative forms

    * honorifick (qualifier) * honourific

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A title. (i.e., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor )
  • A term of respect; respectful language.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing or conferring honour and respect.
  • * 1996 , T. P. Wiseman, “The Minucii and Their Monument”, in Jerzy Linderski (editor), Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic , Franz Steiner Verlag, ISBN 978-3-515-06948-9, page 59:
    • According to Pliny, the custom of setting up honorific statues on columns was a comparably ancient one.
  • Based on or valuing honor
  • * 2010 , Orlando Patterson, “The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence”, in John R. Hall et al. (editors), Handbook of Cultural Sociology , Taylor & Francis, ISBN 978-0-415-47445-0, page 143:
    • In the honorific cultural process, individuals (especially men) are extremely sensitive to real or perceived insults, and

    Derived terms

    * honorifically