Pollution vs Nuisance - What's the difference?
pollution | nuisance |
The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
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, chapter=1 Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
(archaic) Physical defilement.
(medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
* 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon'', Blanchard, page 492 defines ''POLLUTION as:
A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
(legal) Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
As nouns the difference between pollution and nuisance
is that pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances while nuisance is a minor annoyance or inconvenience.pollution
English
(wikipedia pollution)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the
- The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution'' or ''Masturbation'' (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name ''Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.
Synonyms
* soilage * (masturbation) self-pollutionAntonyms
* conservation * purityDerived terms
* air pollution * light pollution * noise pollution * self-pollution * soil pollution * water pollutionnuisance
English
Noun
(wikipedia nuisance) (en noun)- a public nuisance