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Paramount vs Primordial - What's the difference?

paramount | primordial |

As adjectives the difference between paramount and primordial

is that paramount is supreme; highest; chief while primordial is first, earliest or original.

As a noun primordial is

a first principle or element.

paramount

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Supreme; highest; chief.
  • * (Francis Bacon)
    • A traitor paramount .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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  • Of the highest importance.

    • Synonyms

    * highest * utmost

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    primordial

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • first, earliest or original
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
    • the primordial facts of our intelligent nature
  • (biology) characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium
    • a primordial''' leaf; a '''primordial cell
  • primeval

    • Derived terms

    * primordial black hole * primordial cell * primordial element * primordial fluctuations * primordial soup

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A first principle or element.