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Mentor vs Lentor - What's the difference?

mentor | lentor |

As a proper noun mentor

is (greek mythology) odysseus's trusted counselor he was assigned the responsibility to raise odysseus's son telemachus, while odysseus was away fighting in troy.

As a noun lentor is

slowness, sluggishness.

mentor

English

Noun

(wikipedia mentor) (en noun)
  • A wise and trusted counselor or teacher

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as someone's mentor

    • Related terms

    * mentee

    See also

    * coach * nestor * sponsor * Article on the etymology and history of the word “mentor” on languagehat.com

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    lentor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * lentour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (-)
  • slowness, sluggishness
  • "...she walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water..." — Nabokov's Lolita, 1955
  • (obsolete, physics) viscosity
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