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Replacement vs Supersession - What's the difference?

replacement | supersession |

As nouns the difference between replacement and supersession

is that replacement is a person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute while supersession is the act of superseding; the fact of having been superseded.

replacement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darlin , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.}}
  • The act of replacing something.

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    Derived terms

    * overreplacement * subreplacement
    See also
    * spare part

    supersession

    English

    Noun

  • The act of superseding; the fact of having been superseded.
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:Two points became perfectly clear: one was that she was thinking of something very different from her present, her past, or her future relations with Hyacinth Robinson; the other was that he was superseded indeed. This was so completely the case that it did not even occur to her, it was evident, that the sense of supersession might be cruel to the young man.
  • *1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
  • *:Still excessively abundant, it was dressed in a manner of which the poor lady appeared not yet to have recognised the supersession , with a glossy braid, like a large diadem, on the top of the head [...].

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