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Taxonomy vs Nihility - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and nihility

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while nihility is nothingness, nullity*oxford english dictionary , 2nd ed, 1989.

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

    nihility

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Nothingness, nullity.*Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
  • * 2000 , Gregg Easterbrook, "Review: The Quest for Quarks," The Wilson Quarterly , vol. 24, no. 1, p. 110:
    • Paeans and even poems have been written to the esoteric nature of the smallest building blocks of matter: how they manifest as everywhere and nowhere, seem to have come out of emptiness, and at the ultimate level seem to be distilled from pure nihility .

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