different between parenthetical vs parenthesis

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæ.??n.??t.?kl?/

Adjective

parenthetical (not comparable)

1. using, containing, or within parenthesis

   the parenthetical portion of the sentence "Bob (my best friend) works in finance"

2. that explains or qualifies something
3. that is incidental

Noun

parenthetical (plural parentheticals)

1. A word or phrase within parentheses.
2. (screenwriting) A descriptor or modifier enclosed within parentheses and put, indented, in a line of dialogue to describe how it should be acted or directed onscreen.

English

Etymology

From Late Latin parenthesis (“addition of a letter to a syllable in a word”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parénthesis), from ??????????? (parentíth?mi, “I put in beside, mix up”), from ???? (pará, “beside”) + ?? (en, “in”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “put, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, to do”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p????n??s?s/

Noun

parenthesis (countable and uncountable, plural parentheses)

1. A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
2. Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
3. (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
4. (mathematics, logic) Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.

Synonyms

• (clause, phrase or word): parenthetical expression
• (brackets): round bracket; parenthesis-point (obsolete)
• paren (abbreviation, for the meaning "round bracket")
• See also Thesaurus:bracket

Derived terms

• parenthesis-point
• parenthetic, parenthetical
• parenthesise, parenthesize

Translations

Anagrams

• hen's parties, interphases, preanthesis