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Taxonomy vs Doomster - What's the difference?

taxonomy | doomster |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and doomster

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while doomster is someone who predicts doom.

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

    doomster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who predicts doom
  • *{{quote-news, 1988, January 29, Dorothy Samachson, Dance Notes: remembering Antony Tudor, conscience of the ABT, Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=Chase and Pleasant may have been innocents, but they were smarter than the doomsters who predicted that Chase would lose her fortune, for their New York company, the Ballet Theatre (later the American Ballet Theatre), got off to a phenomenally successful start. }}
  • (Scotland, archaic) A judge; a deemster.
  • Synonyms

    *doomsayer *pessimist