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taxonomy | disconcerting |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective disconcerting is

tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.

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

    disconcerting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
    • Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting .
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • "You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting ."