Momentous vs Epic - What's the difference?
momentous | epic |
Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
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As adjectives the difference between momentous and epic
is that momentous is outstanding in importance, of great consequence while epic is of, or relating to, an epic.As a noun epic is
an extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero.momentous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The reason why I did not publish this book till the end of the last sessions of parliament was, because I did not care to interfere with more momentous affairs.
- "It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."
- What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.
Inferior Design," New York Times (retrieved 19 Nov 2013):
- Natural selection is arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind, because it — alone as far as we know — explains the elegant illusion of design that pervades the living kingdoms and explains, in passing, us.