Taxonomy vs Dotage - What's the difference?
taxonomy | dotage |
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.
Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.
* 1841 , , The Old Curiosity Shop , ch. 1,
Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree.
* 1598 , , Much Ado About Nothing , act 2, sc. 3,
foolish utterance; drivel
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and dotage
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while dotage is decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.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 * ontologydotage
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(en noun)- "More care!" said the old man. . . . There were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.
- CLAUDIO: And she is exceeding wise.
- DON PEDRO: In every thing but in loving Benedick. . . . I would she had bestowed this dotage on me.
- The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. — Milton.
