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Typology vs Characteristics - What's the difference?

typology | characteristics |

As nouns the difference between typology and characteristics

is that typology is the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics while characteristics is plural of lang=en.

typology

English

(wikipedia typology)

Noun

(typologies)
  • the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics
  • (archaeology) the result of the classification of things according to their characteristics
  • (linguistics) classification of languages according to their linguistic trait (as opposed to historical families like romance languages)

    • Derived terms

    * typological * typologist * linguistic typology * morphological typology

    Related terms

    * type * typification

    See also

    * taxonomy * value domain

    characteristics

    English

    Noun

    (head)