Invention vs Trumpery - What's the difference?
invention | trumpery | Synonyms |
Something invented.
* 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-10-05, volume=409, issue=8856, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The act of inventing.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The capacity to invent.
(music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two-'' and ''Three-part Inventions .
* 1880 , (George Grove) (editor and entry author), ,
(label) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
nonsense
* South
(obsolete) deceit; fraud
gaudy but of no value
* 1954 , Anthony Buckeridge, According to Jennings
Invention is a synonym of trumpery.
As nouns the difference between invention and trumpery
is that invention is while trumpery is worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.As an adjective trumpery is
gaudy but of no value.invention
English
Noun
(en noun)- Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six. Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention .
The widening gyre, passage=British inventions have done more to influence the shape of the modern world than those of any other country. Many—football, the steam engine and Worcestershire sauce, to take a random selection—have spread pleasure, goodwill and prosperity. Others—the Maxim gun, the Shrapnel shell and jellied eels—have not.}}
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
page 15, Invention:
- INVENTION .?A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces?—?15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts?—?each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.
Synonyms
* discoveryReferences
* ----trumpery
English
Noun
(trumperies)- (Prospero, to Ariel)
- This was well done, my bird.
- Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
- The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither
- For stale to catch these thieves.
- Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world.
- (Grenewey)
Adjective
(-)- “Of all the trumpery moonshine!” Mr Wilkins exploded. “What do you think you're playing at, Jennings!”