Obstruction vs Distraction - What's the difference?
obstruction | distraction |
The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance.
The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
Something that distracts.
*{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 The process of being distracted.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
Mental disorder; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
* Richard Baxter
As nouns the difference between obstruction and distraction
is that obstruction is the act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed while distraction is something that distracts.obstruction
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(en noun)Synonyms
* * hindrance * impedance * roadblock * * See alsodistraction
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(en noun)citation, passage=“… This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, …”}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
- It's true that the Copernican Systeme introduceth distraction in the universe of Aristotle.
- if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction , it is no oath, and so not obligatory.