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Savvy vs Maven - What's the difference?

savvy | maven |

As an adjective savvy

is (informal) shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.

As a verb savvy

is (informal) to understand.

As an interjection savvy

is (informal) do you understand?.

As a noun savvy

is shrewdness.

As a proper noun maven is

(nasa|space) a space probe designed to investigate the martian climate.

savvy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

    Synonyms

    * canny

    Verb

  • (informal) to understand
  • Interjection

  • (informal) Do you understand?
  • Noun

    (-)
  • Shrewdness
  • maven

    English

    (wikipedia maven)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, US) An expert in a given field.
  • Pam is a coffee maven ; she knows so much about coffee.
  • * 2002 , Joseph H. Boyett, Jimmie T. Boyett, The Guru Guide to Marketing , page 207,
  • Connectors know people—lots of people. Mavens' know about things. They know, or find out first, what is going on. Connectors, says Gladwell, need ' mavens to tell them what to buzz about.
  • * 2006 January 23, Virginia Robbins, Opinion: Eight Steps to Leadership'', '' , page 19,
  • Besides an executive sponsor, you need to find a technology maven', someone within the company who understands the new technology. A '''maven''', as defined in Malcolm Gladwell?s ''The Tipping Point'', is a person who has both information and the social skills to pass it along. The challenge in a situation such as this one is that the ' maven might be outside of IT.
  • * 2010 , Rachel Davis Mersey, Can Journalism Be Saved?: Rediscovering America's Appetite for News , page 118,
  • The goal for any media company is to be a maven —and therefore highly adept at using multiple channels of social media communication well.

    Derived terms

    * media maven