Kryptonite vs Anathema - What's the difference?
kryptonite | anathema |
The one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable, an Achilles' heel.
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=October 25, author=Bryan Miller, title=Restaurants: John Clancy's, work=New York Times
passage=The terrific seven-grain bread here is the kryptonite of restaurant reviewers: two mini-loaves and you are incapacitated.}}
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A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
By extension, something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
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An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
* 2002 , Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, p. 30:
Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
* John Locke
As nouns the difference between kryptonite and anathema
is that kryptonite is the one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable, an achilles' heel while anathema is a ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.kryptonite
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(wikipedia kryptonite) (-)citation
anathema
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(wikipedia anathema)Noun
(en-noun)- That was a curse from which no flight was possible: the anathema of a man who had once known holiness.
- The Jewish nation were an anathema destined to destruction.