Momentous vs Seminal - What's the difference?
momentous | seminal |
Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
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Of or relating to seed or semen.
Creative or having the power to originate.
Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research.
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As adjectives the difference between momentous and seminal
is that momentous is outstanding in importance, of great consequence while seminal is seminal.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.
Derived terms
* momentously * momentousnessseminal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
- "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science.