Scenario vs Circumstance - What's the difference?
scenario | circumstance |
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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That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
* Washington Irving
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* Addison
* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 20:
Circumlocution; detail.
* Shakespeare
Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
* Addison
To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.
* 1858 , , Chapter 8:
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As nouns the difference between scenario and circumstance
is that scenario is an outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work while circumstance is that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.As a verb circumstance is
to place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.scenario
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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) ----circumstance
English
Alternative forms
* circumstaunceNoun
(en noun)- The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.
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- The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqoeror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history.
- Then another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on my memory, though I was but a small child.
- So without more circumstance at all / I hold it fit that we shake hands and part.
- When men are easy in their circumstances , they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Derived terms
{{der3, attendant circumstance , extenuating circumstances , under no circumstance , under the circumstances}}Verb
(circumstanc)- Tidings had in some shape reached is ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money.