different between invidiousness vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

invidious +? -ness

Noun

invidiousness (usually uncountable, plural invidiousnesses)

1. (rare) Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch. 20

     Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear.

Related terms

• invidious
• invidiously

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “invidiousness”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• invidiousness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “invidiousness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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