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Tacit vs Invisible - What's the difference?

tacit | invisible |

As adjectives the difference between tacit and invisible

is that tacit is expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent while invisible is unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible.

tacit

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.
  • tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection
  • * 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s'' Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , page 62:
  • He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.
  • * 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.
  • Derived terms

    * tacitly * tacitness

    Anagrams

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    invisible

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible.
  • * (John Milton)
  • To us invisible , or dimly seen / In these thy lowest works.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
  • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible ” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • * 2013 , Jayne Smith, Guide to Basic Garment Assembly for the Fashion Industry (page 60)
  • The teeth on an invisible zip are different from those on a conventional zip, as they are turned onto the inside so that they do not show, giving the impression of being concealed in the seam, as seen below.
  • Not appearing on the surface.
  • (Internet) Apparently, but not actually, offline.
  • (psychology) That is ignored by a person.
  • Synonyms

    * (not appearing on the surface) hidden, latent

    Antonyms

    * visible * apparent