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Taxonomy vs Scraggliness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and scraggliness

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while scraggliness is roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.

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

    scraggliness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.
  • * 2002 April 5, Charles McGrath, " Rituals: Great Ways to Wreck A Quiet Weekend," New York Times (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
    • The great thing about mowing is that it is visually satisfying; with each overlapping pass, one more swath is shorn, and where there was once scraggliness and unkemptness, now there is neatness and trimness.
  • * 2002 April 18, Hollywood's Such a Mess These Days: Left and right, stars wear their hear unkept, Lexington Herald-Leader , p. E3 (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
    • Ditto for Uma Thurman, whose loose blonde strands were defiant in their scraggliness . Your mother would have called this kind of hair a bird's nest.
  • * 2004 , Carla Neggers, White Hot , ISBN 9780743496339, p. 195:
    • He was dressed casually, expensively, a contrast to his older brother's ragged, threadbare clothes and general scraggliness .