Incentive vs Merit - What's the difference?
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Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
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Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
* Dr. H. More
Serving to kindle or set on fire.
* Milton
Something deserving positive recognition.
Something worthy of a high rating.
A claim to commendation or reward.
The quality of deserving reward.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation.
* Prior
(obsolete) The quality or state of deserving either good or bad; desert.
* Shakespeare
To earn or to deserve.
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To be worthy or deserving.
(obsolete, rare) To reward.
As nouns the difference between incentive and merit
is that incentive is something that motivates, rouses, or encourages while merit is something deserving positive recognition.As an adjective incentive
is inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.As a verb merit is
to earn or to deserve.incentive
English
(wikipedia incentive)Noun
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Antonyms
* disincentiveDerived terms
* incentivise/incentivize, tax incentiveAdjective
(en adjective)- Competency is the most incentive to industry.
- Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
- Reputation is oft got without merit , and lost without deserving.
- To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, / And every author's merit , but his own.
- His teacher gave him ten merits .
- those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth
- Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought / For things that others do; and when we fall, / We answer others' merits in our name.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Antonyms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- (Chapman)