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Trait vs Owndom - What's the difference?

trait | owndom |

As a verb trait

is .

As a noun owndom is

property.

trait

English

(wikipedia trait)

Noun

(en noun)
  • an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
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    • The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?
  • (computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, an uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.

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    owndom

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Property.
  • *1980 , John Morris Dorsey, University professor John M. Dorsey :
    • There must be a tormenting feeling of self-insufficiency in me until I can realize that my self-possession subsumes my all. I must endure my goading ambition until I can acknowledge ownership of all of my owndom .
  • *1895 , Stephen Pearl Andrews, The science of society :
    • Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom .
  • *1876 , The Musical World:
    • The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.
  • Personal belongings; possessions.
  • A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
  • Ownership; possession.
  • *1894 , Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles :
    • The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom [...]"
  • Control of one's self; self-mastery.