Ideology vs Icon - What's the difference?
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Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
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The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
(linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also (symbol) and (index).
Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.
As nouns the difference between ideology and icon
is that ideology is doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group while icon is an image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.ideology
English
(wikipedia ideology)Noun
(ideologies)Usage notes
Original meaning “study of ideas” (following the etymology), today primarily used to mean “doctrine”. For example “communist ideology” generally refers to “communist doctrine”; study of communist ideas instead being “communist philosophy”, or more clearly “philosophy of communism”; only rarely “ideology of communism”.icon
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(wikipedia icon)Alternative forms
* eikon, ikonNoun
(en noun)- That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.