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Taxonomy vs Indulgency - What's the difference?

taxonomy | indulgency |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and indulgency

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while indulgency is (dated) indulgence.

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

    indulgency

    English

    Noun

  • (dated) indulgence
  • *{{quote-book, year=1897, author=Ernest Renan, title=Recollections of My Youth, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=My amiability, which is in many cases the result of indifference; my indulgency , which is sincere enough, and is due to the fact that I see clearly how unjust men are to one another; my conscientious habits, which afford me real pleasure, and my infinite capacity for enduring ennui, attributable perhaps to my having been so well inoculated by ennui during my youth that it has never taken since, are all to be explained by the circle in which I lived, and the profound impressions which I received. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Murat Halstead, title=The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The poor Tagalo carried with him a large collection of little books written by you, which were given him by his Priest, who told him they represented so much indulgency for his next life. }}