Manipulation vs Digitation - What's the difference?
manipulation | digitation |
The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.
The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic.
The management of some situation, especially for one’s own advantage.
The usage of psychological influence over a person or situation to gain an outcome.
(obsolete) Touching; manipulation with the fingers.
*1749 , John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , Penguin 1985, p. 64:
*:At length, I resorted to the only present remedy, that of vain attempts at digitation , [...] where the pain my fingers gave me in striving for admission, though they procured me a slight satisfaction for the present, started an apprehension, which I could not be easy until I had communicated to Phoebe and received her explanations upon it.
(zoology, botany) Any of various finger-like process found in plant and animal tissues.
As nouns the difference between manipulation and digitation
is that manipulation is manipulation while digitation is (obsolete) touching; manipulation with the fingers.manipulation
English
(wikipedia manipulation)Noun
(en noun)- The dealer's manipulations could have removed cards from the deck.
- After a few minutes of manipulation each week, she obtained days of relief from her neck pain.
- He found that the new manager was known for his Machiavellian manipulations in his last two positions.
- The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation .