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Sycophant vs Concomitant - What's the difference?

sycophant | concomitant |

As nouns the difference between sycophant and concomitant

is that sycophant is one who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer while concomitant is something happening or existing at the same time.

As a verb sycophant

is to inform against; hence, to calumniate.

As an adjective concomitant is

accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.

sycophant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
  • * Dryden
  • A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire.
  • One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
  • (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • Accusing sycophants , of all men, did best sort to his nature.

    Synonyms

    * (one who uses compliments to gain favor) ass-kisser, brown noser, suck up, yes man * (one who seeks to gain through the powerful) parasite, flunky, lackey * See also

    Quotations

    {{timeline, 1700s=1775 1787, 1800s=1841 1863, 1900s=1927}} * 1775 — , No. 3 *: This language, “the imperial crown of Great Britain,” is not the style of the common law, but of court sycophants . * 1787 — *: They know from experience that they sometimes err; and the wonder is that they so seldom err as they do, beset, as they continually are, by the wiles of parasites and sycophants , by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate, by the artifices of men who possess their confidence more than they deserve it, and of those who seek to possess rather than to deserve it. * 1841 — , Ch. 43 *: this man, who has crawled and crept through life, wounding the hands he licked, and biting those he fawned upon: this sycophant , who never knew what honour, truth, or courage meant... * 1863 — , Book IX Ch. XI *: It is only because military men are invested with pomp and power and crowds of sychophants flatter power, attributing to it qualities of genius it does not possess. * 1927–29' — *: Princes were always at the mercy of others and ready to lend their ears to sycophants .

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from sycophant) * sycophancy * sycophantic * sycophantish * sycophantism

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
  • * Milton
  • Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.
  • To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
  • concomitant

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
  • * (John Locke)
  • It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure.
  • * 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 41:
  • The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.

    Synonyms

    * (following as a consequence) accompanying, adjoining, attendant, incidental

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something happening or existing at the same time.
  • * 1970 , , Bantam Books , pg.93:
  • The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 301:
  • It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.
  • An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.
  • Synonyms

    * (a concomitant event or situation) accompaniment, co-occurrence