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Overview vs Counterview - What's the difference?

overview | counterview |

As nouns the difference between overview and counterview

is that overview is a brief summary, as of a book or a presentation while counterview is an opposing viewpoint.

As a verb overview

is to engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.

overview

English

Noun

(wikipedia overview) (en noun)
  • A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
  • * 1976 , Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice [http://books.google.com/books?id=mtHEnnMKh3gC], ISBN 0870730150, page 313:
    • Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.

    counterview

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An opposing viewpoint.
  • A posture in which two persons face each other.
  • * Milton
    • Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, / In counterview .
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
    • M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendix.
  • A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • I have drawn some lines of Linger's character, on purpose to place it in counterview or contrast with that of the other company.