Tacit vs Clandestine - What's the difference?
tacit | clandestine |
Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.
* 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s'' Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , page 62:
* 2004 , Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary (Lawrence Pratchett, ?Vivien Lowndes; ISBN 9287155798):
(logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
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(freemasonry, of a person or lodge) Not recognized as a regular member.
As adjectives the difference between tacit and clandestine
is that tacit is expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent while clandestine is done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.tacit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection
- He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.
Derived terms
* tacitly * tacitnessExternal links
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*clandestine
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Adjective
(en adjective)- In my imagination, all work place encounters between men and women result in clandestine sex.
- And I don't want anyone to think I dislike Catholicism because I don't. It's actually my favourite form of clandestine global evil.