different between politics vs diplomatic

English

Etymology

From the adjective politic, by analogy with Aristotle’s ?? ???????? (ta politiká, “affairs of state”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?l.??t?ks/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?l.?.t?ks/
• Hyphenation: pol?i?tics

Noun

politics (countable and uncountable, plural politics)

1. (countable) A methodology and activities associated with running a government, an organization, or a movement.
   • 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, pages ix-x:

     There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics.

2. (countable) The profession of conducting political affairs.

3. (in the plural) One's political stands and opinions.

4. (uncountable) Political maneuvers or diplomacy between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, influence or conflict.
5. (in the singular, fandom slang) Real-world beliefs and social issues irrelevant to the topic at hand.

Verb

politics

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of politic

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Further reading

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

Anagrams

• colpitis, psilotic

English

Alternative forms

• diplomatical (dated)
• diplomatick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French diplomatique, equal to diplomat +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?pl??mæt?k/

Adjective

diplomatic (comparative more diplomatic, superlative most diplomatic)

1. Concerning the relationships between the governments of countries.

   She spent thirty years working for Canada's diplomatic service.

   Albania immediately severed diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.

2. Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments.

   Thoughtful corrections can be diplomatic as well as instructional.

3. describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus
   • Whereas a diplomatic edition uses as its base text a single, "best" manuscript, to which other textual evidence is collated and organized into an apparatus, a critical text of the LXX/OG [= Septuagint or Old Greek] may be described as a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions (in Greek), systematically reconstructed from the widest array of relevant textual data (including controlled conjecture). The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Critical Editions of Septuagint/Old Greek Texts.
4. Relating to diplomatics, or the study of old texts; paleographic.

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Noun

diplomatic (uncountable)

1. The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
   • 1983, Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, Studies in English legal history (page 151)

     In its broadest aspect, the subject-matter of diplomatic is the relation between documents and facts.

Ladin

Adjective

diplomatic m pl

1. plural of diplomatich

Occitan

Adjective

diplomatic m (feminine singular diplomatica, masculine plural diplomatics, feminine plural diplomaticas)

1. diplomatic

Related terms

• diplomacia
• diplomata

Romanian

Etymology

From French diplomatique, from Latin diplomaticus.

Adjective

diplomatic m or n (feminine singular diplomatic?, masculine plural diplomatici, feminine and neuter plural diplomatice)

1. diplomatic

Declension