Politics vs Diplomatic - What's the difference?
politics | diplomatic |
(countable) A methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement.
* 1996 , Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics , pages ix-x:
(countable) The profession of conducting political affairs.
(countable) One's political stands and opinions.
(uncountable) Political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, influence or conflict.
Concerning the relationships between the governments of countries.
Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments.
describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus
* Whereas a diplomatic edition uses as its base text a single, "best" manuscript, to which other textual evidence is collated and organized into an apparatus, a critical text of the LXX/OG may be described as a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions (in Greek), systematically reconstructed from the widest array of relevant textual data (including controlled conjecture).''
Relating to diplomatics, or the study of old texts; paleographic.
The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
* 1983 , Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, Studies in English legal history (page 151)
As nouns the difference between politics and diplomatic
is that politics is a methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement while diplomatic is the science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.As an adjective diplomatic is
concerning the relationships between the governments of countries.politics
English
(wikipedia politics)Noun
- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics .
- ''He made a career out of politics .
- Their politics are clear from the bumper stickers on their cars.
- There's too much politics in this organization.
Derived terms
* geopolitics * necropolitics * palace politics * petropolitics * politic * political * politician * politicize * sexual politics * wedge politicsExternal links
* * English pluralia tantumdiplomatic
English
Alternative forms
* diplomatick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- She spent thirty years working for Canada's diplomatic service.
- Albania immediately severed diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.
- Thoughtful corrections can be diplomatic as well as instructional.
The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, ''Critical Editions of Septuagint/Old Greek Texts.
Derived terms
* diplomatic bag * diplomatic flu * diplomatic immunity * diplomatic mission * diplomatic pouch * diplomatic relationsNoun
(-)- In its broadest aspect, the subject-matter of diplomatic is the relation between documents and facts.