different between quackery vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

quack +? -ery

Noun

quackery (countable and uncountable, plural quackeries)

1. (law, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
2. (countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.

Quotations

• 1772: Edmund Burke, ed, The Annual Register

  His intentions were admirable, and his quackery had in view the public good; [...]

Related terms

• quack

Translations

See also

• fraud
• snake oil

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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