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Mental vs Chronoclasm - What's the difference?

mental | chronoclasm |

As nouns the difference between mental and chronoclasm

is that mental is moron while chronoclasm is the intentional destruction of clocks and other time artifacts.

mental

English

(wikipedia mental)

Adjective

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  • Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.
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  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • Insane, mad, crazy.
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  • Enjoyable; fun.
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  • (lb) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
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  • (lb) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.

    • Synonyms

    * genial (in the sense referring to the chin) * genian (in the sense referring to the chin)

    Derived terms

    * extramental * intermental * intramental * mentalese * mentalist * mentality * mentally * mental age * mental block * mental disease * mental home * mental patient

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.

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    chronoclasm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The intentional destruction of clocks and other time artifacts
  • (politics) The desire to crush the prevailing sense of time, due to a conflict regarding the fixation of linear time in a community
  • A temporarily frazzled mental state resulting from confusion over what time it is.
  • (science fiction) An interference with the course of history caused by time travel.

    • References

    * Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism - E P Thompson - PDF-version * Mastered By The Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South