Maverick vs Procrustean - What's the difference?
maverick | procrustean |
Showing independence in thoughts or actions.
An unbranded range animal.
* Around 1900 , O Henry,
One who does not abide by rules.
One who creates or uses unconventional and/or controversial ideas or practices.
(poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000) Enforcing strict conformity through disregard of individual differences or special circumstances.
* 2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 287:
English eponyms
As adjectives the difference between maverick and procrustean
is that maverick is showing independence in thoughts or actions while procrustean is enforcing strict conformity through disregard of individual differences or special circumstances.As a noun maverick
is an unbranded range animal.maverick
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He made a maverick decision.
- He is a maverick person.
Noun
(en noun)- Long Bill was a graduate of the camp and trail. Luck and thrift, a cool head, and a telescopic eye for mavericks had raised him from cowboy to be a cowman.
- Florence Nightingale would have been perceived as a maverick during her early career, because she was prioritizing hygiene when everybody else involved in healthcare was focused on other things, such as surgery and pills.'' (Source: Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh, ''Trick or Treatment , 2008, p. 36-37.)
Synonyms
* (one who does not abide by rules) individualist, lone gunman, nonconformist, rebelSee also
*References
The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 English eponyms
procrustean
English
(Wikipedia)Adjective
(en adjective)- The concept of an Age of Nationalism is a bit procrustean .