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Taxonomy vs Breatharianism - What's the difference?

taxonomy | breatharianism |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and breatharianism

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while breatharianism is the belief in, or practice of, living without food, subsisting instead on prana or sunlight.

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

    breatharianism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The belief in, or practice of, living without food, subsisting instead on prana or sunlight.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1988 , title = High Weirdness by Mail , author = Rev. Ivan Stang , location = New York , publisher = Fireside , issn = 067164260X , ol = 2528277M , page = 33 , passage = Wiley Brooks, the guru of Breatharianism , espouses a system of physical vitality by which one may stop eating and drinking entirely, and live, lichenlike, off light and air. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1998 , title = The Ultimate Diet: The Art and Artifice of Fasting , author = (Ricky Jay) , magazine = Jay's Journal of Anomalies , volume = 4 , issue = 1 , passage = An exponent of Breatharianism named Wiley Brooks, a handsome, very thin black man in his forties, headed the Breatharian Institute of America, and in 1983 claimed not to have consumed anything except an occasional glass of fruit juice for eighteen years. }}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 2012-04-25 , title = Woman starves to death in spiritual quest to live on sunlight alone , newspaper = (Daily Mail) , url = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135324/Woman-starves-death-spiritual-journey-trying-live-sunlight-alone.html , passage = Followers of the cult Breatharianism believe that the energy they save on digesting food and drink can be transformed into physical, emotional and spiritual energy. }}

    Related terms

    * breatharian