different between evidence vs symptom

English

Etymology

From Middle English evidence, from Old French [Term?], from Latin evidentia (“clearness, in Late Latin a proof”), from evidens (“clear, evident”); see evident.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?d?ns/, /??v?d?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): [??v???ns]
• Hyphenation: ev?i?dence

Noun

evidence (usually uncountable, plural evidences)

1. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
   • 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

     In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

2. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
3. One who bears witness.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 53:

     He recapitulated the Sybil’s story word by word, with the air of a man who is cross-examining an evidence, and trying to make him contradict himself.

4. A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with the term "evidence": documentary, physical, empirical, scientific, material, circumstantial, anectodal, objective, strong, weak, conclusive, hard

Derived terms

Related terms

• evident
• evidential

Translations

Verb

evidence (third-person singular simple present evidences, present participle evidencing, simple past and past participle evidenced)

1. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

Usage notes

• To be distinguished from evince.

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:evidence.

Further reading

• evidence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• evidence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??v?d?nt?s?]
• Rhymes: -?nts?

Noun

evidence f

1. records
2. registry, repository

Related terms

• See vize
• eviden?ní
• evidovat
• evidentní

See also

• záznamy
• databáze
• registr

Further reading

• evidence in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• evidence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Friulian

Noun

evidence f (plural evidencis)

1. evidence

Middle French

Noun

evidence f (plural evidences)

1. evidence

Descendants

• French: évidence

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m(p)t?m/
• Hyphenation: symp?tom

Noun

symptom (plural symptoms)

1. (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.

2. (figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

Synonyms

• indication
• manifestation
• sign, signal
• See also Thesaurus:symptom

Antonyms

• Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause

Derived terms

• symptomatology
• symptomless

Related terms

• asymptomatic
• asymptote
• symptomatic

Translations

Further reading

• symptom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• symptom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Etymology

From German Symptom from Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?mptom]

Noun

symptom m

1. symptom

Declension

Related terms

• symptomatický

References

Danish

Noun

symptom n (singular definite symptomet, plural indefinite symptomer)

1. symptom

Declension

Derived terms

• symptomfri

Related terms

• symptomatisk

References

• “symptom” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?mp?tu?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m
• Hyphenation: symp?tom

Noun

symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom or symptomer, definite plural symptoma or symptomene)

1. symptom

Derived terms

• abstinenssymptom

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom, definite plural symptoma)

1. symptom

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m.pt?m/

Noun

symptom m inan

1. symptom

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

In the Swedish language since 1730. From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”).

Noun

symptom n

1. Dated form of symtom (“symptom”).