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Undertone vs Association - What's the difference?

undertone | association |

As nouns the difference between undertone and association

is that undertone is an auditory tone of low pitch or volume while association is the act of associating.

undertone

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • an auditory tone of low pitch or volume
  • an implicit message perceived subtly alongside, but not detracting noticeably from, the explicit message conveyed in or by a book, film, verbal dialogue or similar (contrast with overtone); an undercurrent
  • a pale colour, or one seen underneath another colour
  • association

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of associating.
  • The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations —culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
  • (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
  • A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
  • Derived terms

    * guilt by association