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Independent vs Specialty - What's the difference?

independent | specialty |

As nouns the difference between independent and specialty

is that independent is a candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform while specialty is that in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.

As an adjective independent

is not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.

independent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free
  • (politics) not affiliated with any political party
  • Providing a comfortable livelihood.
  • an independent property
  • Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
  • a man of an independent mind
  • Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
  • * R. P. Ward
  • That obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement.

    Synonyms

    * autonomous * free * selfstanding

    Antonyms

    * contingent * dependent

    Derived terms

    * independency * independent contractor * independent film * * independently * independent means

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform.
  • A neutral or uncommitted person.
  • ----

    specialty

    English

    Alternative forms

    * speciality

    Noun

    (specialties)
  • That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.
  • They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.
  • * Charles Kingsley:
  • Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty , their pet subject.
  • (obsolete) particularity
  • * Shakespeare:
  • Specialty of rule hath been neglected.
  • A particular or peculiar case.
  • An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
  • (legal) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
  • (Bouvier)
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let specialties be therefore drawn between us.
  • * Joseph Chitty