Polity vs Institution - What's the difference?
polity | institution |
(politics) An organizational structure of the government of a state, church, etc.
(political science) A politically organized unit; a state.
An established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.
The building which houses such an organisation.
A custom or practice of a society or community, marriage for example.
(informal) A person long established with a certain place or position.
The act of instituting.
(obsolete) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook or system of elements or rules.
As nouns the difference between polity and institution
is that polity is (politics) an organizational structure of the government of a state, church, etc while institution is institution.polity
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(wikipedia institution) (en noun)- There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, being an institution of physic. — Evelyn.