Wandering vs Peripatetic - What's the difference?
wandering | peripatetic | Related terms |
Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
(medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
Travelling with no preset route; roaming.
Irregular turning of the eyes.
Aimless thought.
Straying from a desired path.
(chiefly, in the plural) Disordered speech or delirium.
Tending to walk about.
Constantly travelling; itinerant; nomadic.
(usually, capitalized) Having to do with Aristotle, his philosophy, or the school of thought which he founded.
* Howell
One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
(usually, capitalized) One who accepts the philosophy of Aristotle or his school; an Aristotelian.
* 1961 , Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics , 11:
As adjectives the difference between wandering and peripatetic
is that wandering is which wanders; travelling from place to place while peripatetic is tending to walk about.As nouns the difference between wandering and peripatetic
is that wandering is travelling with no preset route; roaming while peripatetic is one who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.As a verb wandering
is present participle of lang=en.wandering
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Adjective
(-)- a wandering''' kidney; a '''wandering liver
Derived terms
(terms derived from wandering) * wandering abscess * wandering albatross * wandering cell * wandering dune * wandering Jew * wandering kidney * wandering liver * wandering mouse * wandering pacemaker * wandering sequence * wandering set * wandering spider * wandering tattlerNoun
(en noun)Verb
(head)peripatetic
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Alternative forms
* peripatetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The true peripatetic school.
Noun
(en noun)- He who would think clearly must think like a peripatetic even if he is unwilling to walk like one.
