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Taxonomy vs Inwit - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and inwit

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while inwit is (archaic) inward knowledge or understanding.

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

    inwit

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Inward knowledge or understanding.
  • * "Will it make you happy?" / "Probably not," Kai said irritably. "Inwit tells me that you're trouble from the beginning." — Midori Snyder, Sadar's Keep , A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York, 1991
  • (obsolete) Conscience; inward sense of morality.
  • * (rfdate) Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit . Conscience. — James Joyce, Ulysses , 1922
  • * "I knew that was so. Every time that inwit twanged -- I have conscience like you, reverend sir!" -- — Marcia Davenport, Constant Image , 1960
  • * (rfdate) Inwit , a term for conscience, suggests the inner senses and interior sensibility, which accords nicely with the current state of the senses under the regime of electric technologies. — Marshall McLuhan, The Agenbite of Outwit , 1998
  • * "What's the matter? Can't a ballplayer - an ex-ballplayer - have a literate vocabulary?" / "Sure. But 'qualm?' " / "How about 'the aginbite of inwit' then?" — Paul Di Filippo, Seeing is believing , Fantasy & Science Fiction: Apr 2003:. Vol. 104, Iss. 4; pg. 131

    • Derived terms

    * angel's inwit