Implication vs Disadvantage - What's the difference?
implication | disadvantage |
(uncountable) The act of implicating.
(uncountable) The state of being implicated.
(countable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
(countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
A setback or handicap.
* Burke
* Palfrey
Loss; detriment; hindrance.
* Bancroft
To place at a disadvantage.
* 2013 September 28, , "
As nouns the difference between implication and disadvantage
is that implication is the act of implicating while disadvantage is a weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.As a verb disadvantage is
to place at a disadvantage.implication
English
Noun
- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
Derived terms
* material implication * strict implicationExternal links
* * ----disadvantage
English
Alternative forms
* disadvauntage (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.
- My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.
- I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you.
- Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage .
- They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public.
Synonyms
* (an undesirable characteristic) afterdeal, con, drawback, downside * (a handicap) afterdeal, weaknessAntonyms
* advantageVerb
(disadvantag)- They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.