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Neotenic vs Neoteric - What's the difference?

neotenic | neoteric |

As adjectives the difference between neotenic and neoteric

is that neotenic is exhibiting neoteny while neoteric is modern, new-fangled.

As a noun neoteric is

a modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).

neotenic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exhibiting neoteny.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Douglas Larson , title=Runaway Devils Lake , volume=100, issue=1, page=46 , magazine= citation , passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}

    Synonyms

    * pedomorphic

    neoteric

    English

    Alternative forms

    * neoterical

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Modern, new-fangled.
  • * Fitzed. Hall
    • Our neoteric verbs.''
  • New; recent.
  • *"Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?" — The Toronto Star , August 21, 1998
  • *"A few words on the two neoteric terms, cybertext'' and ''ergodic'', are in order." — ''Cybertext , 1997, Espen Aarseth.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
  • *, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.140:
  • *:Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.
  • Someone with new or modern ideas.

    • External links

    * Dictionary.com's entry for neoteric.

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