Institutional vs Traditional - What's the difference?
institutional | traditional |
Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
Instituted by authority.
Elementary; rudimentary.
(Webster 1913)
Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
As adjectives the difference between institutional and traditional
is that institutional is of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution while traditional is of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.institutional
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(en adjective)traditional
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(en adjective)- I think her traditional values are antiquated .