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Language vs Identity - What's the difference?

language | identity |


As nouns the difference between language and identity

is that language is (lb) a body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication or language can be a languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ while identity is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.

As a verb language

is to communicate by language; to express in language.

Eleventh vs Sedenary - What's the difference?

eleventh | sedenary |


As adjectives the difference between eleventh and sedenary

is that eleventh is the ordinal form of the number eleven while sedenary is sixteenfold.

As a noun eleventh

is the person or thing in the eleventh position.

Persuasion vs Seduction - What's the difference?

persuasion | seduction |


As nouns the difference between persuasion and seduction

is that persuasion is the act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc while seduction is the act of seducing.

Paucity vs Limited - What's the difference?

paucity | limited |


As a noun paucity

is fewness in number; too few.

As a verb limited is

(limit).

As an adjective limited is

with certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.

Nonrecognition vs Negligence - What's the difference?

nonrecognition | negligence |


As nouns the difference between nonrecognition and negligence

is that nonrecognition is lack of recognition while negligence is negligence; carelessness.

As an adjective nonrecognition

is (taxes) not involving recognition of gain or loss.

Vacuity vs Desolation - What's the difference?

vacuity | desolation |


As nouns the difference between vacuity and desolation

is that vacuity is emptiness while desolation is desolation.

Misfortune vs Failure - What's the difference?

misfortune | failure |


As nouns the difference between misfortune and failure

is that misfortune is bad luck while failure is state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.

Wretched vs Disfigurement - What's the difference?

wretched | disfigurement |


As an adjective wretched

is very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.

As a noun disfigurement is

the result of disfiguring; the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfiguration.

Hypothesis vs Claim - What's the difference?

hypothesis | claim |


As nouns the difference between hypothesis and claim

is that hypothesis is used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there while claim is a demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).

As a verb claim is

to demand ownership of.

Injustice vs Infamy - What's the difference?

injustice | infamy |


As nouns the difference between injustice and infamy

is that injustice is absence of justice; unjustice while infamy is the state of being infamous.

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