different between posthumous vs vividities
posthumous
English
Alternative forms
- post-humous
- postumous (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin posthumus, a variant spelling of postumus, superlative form of posterus (“coming after”), the ?h? added by association with humus (“ground, earth”) referring to burial.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?p?s.t??.m?s/, /?p?s.t??.m?s/
Adjective
posthumous (not comparable)
- After the death of someone.
- Taking place after one's own death.
- In reference to a work, published after the author's death.
- (originally) Born after the death of one's father.
Synonyms
- post mortem
Antonyms
- antemortem
- anthumous
- predeath
- prehumous
- premortem
Derived terms
- posthumously
- posthumousness
Related terms
- posthumous execution
- posthumous work
Translations
Further reading
- posthumous on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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vividities
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: v?v??d?t?z, IPA(key): /v??v?d?ti?z/
Noun
vividities
- plural of vividity
- 1823: AUTHOR UNKNOWN, The Lady’s magazine (and museum). Improved ser., enlarged, p266
- …and the vividities of passion, the writer may not have known how to procure the morrow’s sustenance.
- 1925: Joseph Conrad, The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad, p255 (Nota bene: this citation and every one of those marked with a superscribed obelus (†) are identical copies of Joseph Conrad’s unfinished last novel “Suspense” (published posthumously in 1925))
- At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
- 1977: Angus Wilson & John Holloway, Writers of East Anglia, p120
- We are the echoes from the planets,
- ??the blackbody vividities,
- ??and the high-energy tailing
- ??that flows from the springs of time. [?…]
- We are the echoes from the planets,
- 1995: Joseph Conrad, The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad, p255?†
- At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
- 1823: AUTHOR UNKNOWN, The Lady’s magazine (and museum). Improved ser., enlarged, p266
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:vividities.
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