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Tendentious vs Sententious - What's the difference?

tendentious | sententious |

As adjectives the difference between tendentious and sententious

is that tendentious is having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one while sententious is full of meaning.

tendentious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
  • Implicitly or explicitly slanted.
  • As a supporter of the cause, his reports were tendentious in the extreme.

    sententious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Full of meaning.
  • Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
  • Tending to use aphorisms or maxims, especially given to trite moralizing.
  • Synonyms

    * (using as few words as possible) concise, pithy * (tending to use aphorisms) aphoristic

    Derived terms

    * sententiously * sententiousness