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Quidnunc vs Quidnuncery - What's the difference?

quidnunc | quidnuncery |

As nouns the difference between quidnunc and quidnuncery

is that quidnunc is a person eager to learn news and scandal while quidnuncery is (rare) behaviour of a quidnunc; irresponsible rumourmongering.

quidnunc

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person eager to learn news and scandal

    • Synonyms

    * (someone who attempts to know all) busybody, buttinsky, gossip, newsmonger

    quidnuncery

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) Behaviour of a quidnunc; irresponsible rumourmongering.
  • * 1901 , Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work
    • The cry so often raised abroad during the crisis of the Dreyfus case, that the military was overriding the civil power, was the veriest quidnuncery .
  • * 1968 , Frederic Everett Faverty, The Victorian Poets: A Guide to Research?
    • Built on hearsay, scandal, and downright fabrications, this volume, a veritable handbook of quidnuncery , is as much a work of fiction...