different between apotheosis vs yardstick

English

Etymology

From Latin apothe?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (apothé?sis), from verb ??????? (apotheó?, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from ???? (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ???- (apo-)) + -??? (-sis, “forms noun of action”). Surface analysis apo- +? theo- +? -sis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p??.i????.s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p??.?i?o?.s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s?s

Noun

apotheosis (countable and uncountable, plural apotheoses)

1. The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.

   Synonym: deification

   • 1986, SRF Price, Rituals and Power, p. 75:

   • 2002, CE Newlands, Statius' Silvae and the Politics of Empire, p. 176:

2. Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.

   Synonyms: exaltation, glorification

   • 1974, Per Lord Hailsham, Smedleys Ltd v Breed [1974]2 All ER 21(HL) at 24:

3. A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).

   Synonyms: apex, paragon

   • 1925, William Carlos Williams, 'Edgar Allan Poe', In The American Grain, 1990, p. 232:
4. The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).

   Synonyms: apex, climax, culmination, peak, pinnacle

5. (loosely) Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.

   Synonym: death

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

6. (psychology) The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.

Derived terms

• apotheosize
• apotheotic

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• apoth. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (apothé?sis), from verb ??????? (apotheó?, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from ???? (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ???- (apo-)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.po.t?e?o?.sis/, [äp?t??e?o?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.po.te?o.sis/, [?p?t?????s?is]

Noun

apothe?sis f (genitive apothe?sis); third declension

1. apotheosis, deification

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

References

• apotheosis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apotheosis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• apotheosis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apotheosis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

yard +? stick

Noun

yardstick (plural yardsticks)

1. A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.
2. (figuratively) A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.

   Synonyms: norm, point of reference, benchmark, ideal

   • 2008 April 8, Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt, “Attacks in Baghdad spiked in March, U.S. data show”, in International Herald Tribune, 2008 April 8 edition, “Africa & Middle East” section,

     Attacks against civilians in the capital remained relatively unchanged: 69 in March from 62 in February. ¶ However, another yardstick, the number of civilian deaths tracked by the Iraqi government, shot up last month after several months of decline.

Derived terms

• Portsmouth yardstick

Translations

Further reading

• yardstick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia