Stylize vs Simplify - What's the difference?
stylize | simplify |
To represent something in a particular style.
To represent something in a conventional manner.
To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
To become simpler.
* 2006 , Karen Oslund, “Reading Backwards: Language Politics and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia”, in David L. Hoyt and Karen Oslund (editors), The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context , Lexington Books, ISBN 978-0-7391-0955-7, page 126:
As verbs the difference between stylize and simplify
is that stylize is to represent something in a particular style while simplify is to make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.stylize
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Alternative forms
stylise (Commonwealth)Verb
(styliz)Anagrams
*simplify
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Verb
(en-verb)- Thus, throughout the nineteenth century, linguists generally held that more grammatically complex languages were older and that languages tended to simplify over time—the four grammatical cases of German as contrasted with the seven of Latin, for example.