different between voluntaristic vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From voluntarist +? -ic or voluntary +? -istic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v?l?nt????st?k/

Adjective

voluntaristic (comparative more voluntaristic, superlative most voluntaristic)

1. Pertaining to voluntary activity; supporting or promoting voluntarism.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 183:

     Open space, the incursions of commercialism and the growing prestige of polite society produced an urban environment increasingly consonant with the voluntaristic collective culture of the philosophes.

Related terms

• voluntarist
• voluntarism

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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