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Myriad vs Craftspersonship - What's the difference?

myriad | craftspersonship |

As nouns the difference between myriad and craftspersonship

is that myriad is while craftspersonship is the body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).

As an adjective myriad

is (modifying a singular noun) multifaceted, having innumerable elements.

myriad

English

(wikipedia myriad)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A countless number or multitude (of specified things)
  • Earth hosts a myriad of animals.

    Usage notes

    Used as an adjective (see below), 'myriad' requires neither an article before it nor a preposition after. Because of this, some consider the usage described in sense 2 above, where 'myriad' acts as part of a nominal (or noun) group (that is, "a myriad of animals"), to be tautological.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (modifying a singular noun) Multifaceted, having innumerable elements
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 131:
  • one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].
  • * 2011' April 6–19, Kara Krekeler, "Researchers at Washington U. have 'itch' to cure problem", ''West End Word'', ' 40 (7), p. 8:
  • "As a clinician, it's a difficult symptom to treat," Cornelius said. "The end symptom may be the same, but what's causing it may be myriad ."
  • (modifying a plural noun) Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous
  • Earth hosts myriad animals.
  • * 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
  • Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.

    See also

    * plethora ----

    craftspersonship

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
  • * 1935 : Arts Magazine , page 140 (Art Digest Inc.)
  • The carpenter’s role – like that of a story told 1900 years earlier – is not to craft, for in his craftspersonship he is faulty, but to comprehend.
  • * 2001 : Stephen Gudeman, The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture , page 115] ([http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ Blackwell Publishing)
  • This artisanship or craftspersonship was the sort of Enlightenment activity extolled by Diderot in the eighteenth century.
  • * 2007 : John Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville , page 205] ([http://www.cambridge.org/ Cambridge University Press)
  • The olive too they say belongs to this pioneeress, and craftspersonship , plus many arts and crafts are this inventress’s.

    Usage notes

    * Some modern authors prefer the epicene term (term) to the feminine craftswomanship and the masculine (though traditionally considered gender-nonspecific) craftsmanship; nevertheless, in common usage, (term) is over a myriad times more common than (term). Google Fight]: [http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=craftsmanship&word2=craftspersonship craftsmanship'' vs. ''craftspersonship

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