Prodigy vs Spectacle - What's the difference?
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* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 87:
An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
A wonderful example of something.
An extremely talented person, especially a child.
Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
An exciting exhibition, performance or event.
An embarrassing situation
(usually, in the plural) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
(figuratively) An aid to the intellectual sight.
* Chaucer
(obsolete) A spyglass; a looking-glass.
The brille of a snake.
Prodigy is a related term of spectacle.
As nouns the difference between prodigy and spectacle
is that prodigy is while spectacle is something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant.prodigy
English
Noun
(prodigies)- John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.
Synonyms
* (extremely talented person) wunderkind, girl wonder, girl-genius, boy-genius, boy wonder, child prodigy.See also
* precocious * prodigal * child prodigy * prodigy houseExternal links
* * *spectacle
Noun
(en noun)- In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
- He made a spectacle out of himself
- Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see.