What is the difference between terminology and jargon?
terminology | jargon | Synonyms |
The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms, a system of specialized terms.
The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.
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, title= (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
(countable) Language characteristic of a particular group.
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(uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
* Macaulay
To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
* Longfellow
Jargon is a synonym of terminology.
Jargon is a related term of terminology.
As nouns the difference between terminology and jargon
is that terminology is the doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms, a system of specialized terms while jargon is a technical terminology unique to a particular subject.As a verb jargon is
to utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.terminology
Noun
(terminologies)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.
Synonyms
* nomenclature, vocabulary, language, wording, phraseology, jargon, lingo, -eseDerived terms
* terminological * terminologically * terminologistExternal links
* *jargon
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
- In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.
- A barbarous jargon .
Synonyms
* (language characteristic of a group) argot, cant, intalk * vernacularDerived terms
* jargonaut * jargoneer * jargonist * jargonistic * jargonization * jargonizeVerb
(en verb)- The noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food.
