different between moonstruck vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

moon +? struck. Compare German Low German maansüchtig, German mondsüchtig.

Adjective

moonstruck (comparative more moonstruck, superlative most moonstruck)

1. (obsolete) Crazy or insane when affected by the phases of the Moon.
2. (by extension) Showing irrational behaviour, especially of a romantic or sentimental nature.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 4 & 5:

     [W]e can also overlook the verbiage of a good deal of the mind-cure literature, some of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trained intellect finds it almost impossible to read it at all.

   • 1925, Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, Chapter 21, IV:

     The full moon was spacious now behind the maples. The seedy Pickerbaugh domain was enchanted […] and over all the world was the proper witchery of moonstruck love.

3. (obsolete) Made sick, or (like fishes) unsuitable for food, by the supposed influence of the Moon.

Synonyms

• moonstricken

Translations

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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