Savvy vs Maven - What's the difference?
savvy | maven |
(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/]
(informal) to understand
(informal) Do you understand?
Shrewdness
(chiefly, US) An expert in a given field.
* 2002 , Joseph H. Boyett, Jimmie T. Boyett, The Guru Guide to Marketing ,
* 2006 January 23, Virginia Robbins, Opinion: Eight Steps to Leadership'', '' ,
* 2010 , Rachel Davis Mersey, Can Journalism Be Saved?: Rediscovering America's Appetite for News ,
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)- 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.
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(-)maven
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(wikipedia maven)Noun
(en noun)- Pam is a coffee maven ; she knows so much about coffee.
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.
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.
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.