Mana vs Stamina - What's the difference?
mana | stamina |
Power, prestige; specifically, a form of supernatural energy in Polynesian religion that inheres in things or people.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 193:
(gaming, chiefly, role-playing games) Magical power.
* 2007 , "bear", Makes Lovely Julienne Ogres....'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.angband )
* 2010 , Ernest Adams, Fundamentals of Game Design (page 580)
(uncountable, now considered singular) The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.
:: He has a lot of stamina . I suppose that is why he can run for a long time.
(botany, rare) English plurals
* 1790 , William Curtis, The Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-Garden Displayed , Volume 3,
* 1832 December 8, Spirit of Discovery'', in ''The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction , Number 579,
(obsolete, as plural) The basic elements of a thing; rudimentary structures or qualities.
As nouns the difference between mana and stamina
is that mana is (lb) (food miraculously produced for the israelites in the desert in the book of exodus) while stamina is (uncountable|now considered singular) the energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.mana
English
(wikipedia mana)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mana, ultimately from Proto-Polynesian .Noun
(-)- But in popular estimation their essential virtue derived from the personal mana of the sovereign.
- Teleporting from an open room where there were a dozen black orcs firing bows landed me, low on mana and hitpoints, in a room full of gnome mages who instantly summoned four umber hulks and a xorn!
- Mana often grows in exponential proportion to population size, so as the population increases the player acquires vastly greater powers—a progression that god games share with spellcaster characters in role-playing games.
Etymology 2
Anagrams
* * ----stamina
English
Noun
(-)2006 Gutenberg eBook edition,
- In the specimens we have examined, and which perhaps have been rendered luxuriant by culture, the number of stamina has been from twelve to sixteen; of styles, from six to eight; of flowers on the same stalk, from one to eight.
2005 Gutenberg eBook edition,
- The gay flowers of the hibiscus tiliaceus, as well as the splendid huth or Barringtonia speciosa, covered with its beautiful flowers, the petals of which are white, and the edges of the stamina delicately tinged with pink, give to the trees when in full bloom a magnificent appearance; the hibiscus rosa-chinensis, or kowa of the natives also grows in luxuriance and beauty.