Taxonomy vs Awayness - What's the difference?
taxonomy | awayness |
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.
The state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism.
* 1925 , Aldous Huxley, Those barren leaves :
* 1942 , Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Balinese character, a photographic analysis :
* 1960 , Jane Belo, Trance in Bali :
* 1991 , Wilfred G. Cartey, Whispers from the Caribbean :
* 2006 , Jill B. R. Cherneff, Eve Hochwald, Visionary observers: anthropological inquiry and education :
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and awayness
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while awayness is the state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism.taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee 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 * ontologyawayness
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(-)- It was the awayness' of it that first attracted me to the place. The vast ' awayness from what I had called home up till the time I first stayed there — that was what made me decide to settle for good at Miss Carruthers's.
- These periods of awayness are not followed by manifestations of fatigue, and are usually terminated by a sudden [...]
- They describe the trances of the balian or seer of the village they studied most exhaustively as beginning with such "awayness ," then passing into a period when "the seer exhibits emotions never otherwise expressed except on the stage [...]
- Clearly then, two separate spaces, the countries of origin — the Caribbean — and the countries to which they have migrated — England, Canada, the United States — become the figural polarities linking together the condition of awayness , [...]
- Potentially, “awayness ” is a messy category for analyzing a people's behavior.