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Positively vs Significantly - What's the difference?

positively | significantly |

As adverbs the difference between positively and significantly

is that positively is   In a positive manner while significantly is in a significant manner or to a significant extent.

positively

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (manner)  In a positive manner.
  • (modal)  With certainty.
  • (degree)  Very.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}

    Synonyms

    * (with certainty) definitely, categorically, decisively, unconditionally

    significantly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a significant manner or to a significant extent.
  • Synonyms

    * way