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Taxonomy vs Prelapsarian - What's the difference?

taxonomy | prelapsarian |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective prelapsarian is

of, or relating to the period of innocence before the fall of man; innocent, unspoiled.

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

    prelapsarian

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pre-lapsarian

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled.
  • * 2004 , Janet Bertsch, Storytelling in the works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel , page 4,
  • Ideally, individual stories and God's plan share the same final goal, namely, returning to a prelapsarian state of perfect communication with God.
  • *2009 , Tom Service, The Guardian , 1 Jun 2010:
  • *:Can you really turn a few keyboards outside London's landmarks into the equivalent of a pub honky-tonk for a good old knees-up; a 50s living room where the family would gather around the piano every evening, in some prelapsarian vision of the olden days [...]?
  • *2010 , "The perils of constitution-worship", The Economist , 23 Sep 2010:
  • *:Conservative think-tanks have the same dream of return to a prelapsarian innocence.
  • Synonyms

    * (Christianity) antelapsarian, superlapsarian, superlapsarian * (carefree period) halcyon

    Antonyms

    * postlapsarian

    Coordinate terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * (Lapsarianism) * (Fall of Man)