Independent vs Specialty - What's the difference?
independent | specialty |
not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free
(politics) not affiliated with any political party
Providing a comfortable livelihood.
Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
* R. P. Ward
A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform.
A neutral or uncommitted person.
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That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.
* Charles Kingsley:
(obsolete) particularity
* Shakespeare:
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.
* Shakespeare
* Joseph Chitty
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)- an independent property
- a man of an independent mind
- 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 * selfstandingAntonyms
* contingent * dependentDerived terms
* independency * independent contractor * independent film * * independently * independent meansNoun
(en noun)specialty
English
Alternative forms
* specialityNoun
(specialties)- They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.
- Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty , their pet subject.
- Specialty of rule hath been neglected.
- (Bouvier)
- Let specialties be therefore drawn between us.