different between nympholepsy vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

nympho- +? -lepsy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?mf??l?psi/

Noun

nympholepsy (countable and uncountable, plural nympholepsies)

1. A frenzied state of (usually erotic) emotion, especially concerning something or someone unattainable.
   • 1852, Mary Edgewood Lazarus, Love Vs. Marriage: Part 1, page 292

     If young persons of both sexes were brought together in the honest practical relations of organized labor, we should see no more of these fond nympholepsies

Related terms

• nympholept

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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