different between squicky vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

squick +? -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?skw?k.i/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Adjective

squicky (comparative squickier, superlative squickiest)

1. (slang) Engendering a feeling of disgust, distaste, nausea or revulsion, but without a judgment regarding the rightness or wrongness of the stimulus.

   She offered to show me the injury, but I find blood rather squicky.

Related terms

• squick

Translations

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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