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Taxonomy vs Somewhereness - What's the difference?

taxonomy | somewhereness |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and somewhereness

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while somewhereness is the state or quality of being in, occurring in, or belonging to a specific place.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    somewhereness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being in, occurring in, or belonging to a specific place.
  • * 1984 , , Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age , University of California Press (1984), ISBN 9780520051157, page 64:
    • For politics is defined by its somewhereness , its concrete historicity in the real world of human beings.
  • The state or quality of existing in a place that is unknown or cannot be pinpointed.
  • * 1928 , , Old Pybus , Alfred A. Knopf (1928), page 230:
    • Mary Merris had found it good to shed tears in this little, funny old room, wherein an old man who had looked on life had brought into being a beautiful faith in the essential somewhereness of God.
  • The unique characteristics imparted on a wine by the conditions of the place in which it was grown.
  • * 2004 , , New California Wine: Making Sense of Napa Valley, Sonoma, Central Coast, and Beyond , Running Press (2004), ISBN 0762419644, page 334:
    • Comparing them is an ideal lesson in California wine somewhereness .

    Synonyms

    * (wine) terroir

    Quotations

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