Scenario vs Alternative - What's the difference?
scenario | alternative |
An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work.
A screenplay itself, or an outline or a treatment of it.
An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
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Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities
Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle, (alternative rock)).
Other.
alternate; reciprocal
A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , XI:
One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
As nouns the difference between scenario and alternative
is that scenario is an outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work while alternative is a situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.As an adjective alternative is
relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.scenario
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Hearts were keen to avoid a repeat of the scenario at this stage of last season's competition, when they found themselves two goals down inside the opening quarter of an hour.}}
Derived terms
* worst case scenarioSee also
* scenarii (hypercorrect plural) ----alternative
English
(wikipedia alternative)Adjective
(-)- an alternative proposition
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Derived terms
* alternative dispute resolution * alternative energy * alternative lifestyle * alternative medicine * alternative press * alternative voteNoun
(en noun)- ‘The cloister or a betrothed husband?’ I echoed—‘Is that the alternative destined for Miss Vernon?’
