1) Award 2) Cachet 3) Calibre 4) Celebrity 5) Contradistinction 6) Decorum 7) Difference 8) Differentiation 9) Discrimination 10) Dissimilarity 11) Eminence 12) Excellence 13) Fame 14) Fineness 15) Illustration 16) Nicety 17) Nobility 18) Notability 19) Note 20) Preeminence 21) Repute 22) Status
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1) Differentiation 2) Discrimination 3) Fame 4) French book 5) French word used in English 6) Importance 7) Prominence 8) Renown 9) Reputation 10) Secernment
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- high status importance owing to marked superiority
- a distinguishing quality
- a distinguishing difference
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[law] Distinction is a principle under international humanitarian law governing the legal use of force in an armed conflict, whereby belligerents must distinguish between combatants and civilians.{sfn|Greenberg|2011|loc=Illegal Targeting of Civilians} Distinction and proportionality are important factors in assessing military necessity in t...
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[philosophy] Distinction, the fundamental philosophical abstraction, involves the recognition of difference. Cybernetics deals with the rational paradox of self-reference by distinguishing it from hetero-reference in the abstract distinction. Prefacing the distinction comes the `proemial relation` (a term coined by Gotthard Gunther in his 1...
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[social] In the field of sociology, the term Distinction denotes a social force that assigns different values upon different people within a given society. In Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (La Distinction, 1979), Pierre Bourdieu described how the powers that be define aesthetic concepts such as `Taste”, whereby ...
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• (n.) The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from others; exercise of discernment; discrimination. • (n.) Estimation of difference; regard to differences or distinguishing circumstance. • (n.) Conspicuous station; eminence; superiority; honorable estimation; as, ...
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1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. 'The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known.' (Dryden) ... 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from others; exercise of discernment; discrimination. 'To take away therefore that error, which confus...
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Dis·tinc'tion noun [ Latin
distinctio : confer French
distinction .]
1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. [ Obsolete] « The
distinction of tragedy into acts was not known.»
Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing o...
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[
n] - a distinguishing quality 2. [n] - a distinguishing difference
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noun a distinguishing difference; `he learned the distinction between gold and lead`
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(in Scholasticism) Consists in this, that one thing is not another. Absolute: There is an absolute distinction between two things when neither one is a mode of the other, e.g. that between a stone and gold. A modal distinction is a distinction between a thing and its mode, e.g. that between a body and its shape. Adequate: A distinction between two....
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a marking off or distinguishing as different: His distinction of sounds is excellent. · the recognizing or noting of differences; discrimination: to make a distinction between right and wrong. · a discrimination made between things as different; special regard or favoritism: Death comes to all without distinction. · condition of bein...
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a discrimination between things as different
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[Literary terms] high status importance owing to marked superiority
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[Intelligent words] a discrimination between things as different
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