different between situationism vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

situation +? -ism

Noun

situationism (countable and uncountable, plural situationisms)

1. (psychology) A school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations.
2. (politics) A mid-20th-century offshoot of Marxism, influenced by avant-garde art movements.

   Coordinate term: Lettrism

Usage notes

Members of the political movement avoided the term situationism and referred to it by the name of the founding organization, Situationist International (SI).

Related terms

• situationist
• Situationist International

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Further reading

• Situationism (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Situationist International on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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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