Recount vs Recapitulate - What's the difference?
recount | recapitulate | Related terms |
To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.
To rehearse; to enumerate.
to summarize or repeat in concise form
to repeat the evolutionary stages of an organism during its embryonic development
Recount is a related term of recapitulate.
As verbs the difference between recount and recapitulate
is that recount is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of or recount can be to count or reckon again while recapitulate is to summarize or repeat in concise form.As a noun recount
is retelling, narration, rendering or recount can be a counting again, as of votes.recount
English
Etymology 1
From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.Verb
(en verb)- The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
- to recount one's blessings
Etymology 2
Anagrams
*recapitulate
English
Verb
(recapitulat)- The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.
- ''Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.