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- Deprivation and privation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"Deprivation" and "privation" seem to have the same meaning: the denial of material essentials or comforts Isn't the prefix "de-" redundant? Is there a difference, either in literal usage or conno
- Origin of one mans trash is another mans treasure
This might be tough considering the gesture is iterated so many ways, but it's worth a shot What is the origin of the expression one man's trash is another man's treasure?
- single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Here's a quote: The fallacy of relative privation, or appeal to worse problems, is an informal fallacy which attempts to suggest that the opponent's argument should be ignored because there are more important problems in the world, despite the fact that these issues are often completely unrelated to the subject under discussion
- Privative meaning a concept of absence [closed]
1 Merriam Webster defines privative in exactly the way you describe constituting or predicating privation or absence of a quality in fact it is the only definition it gives It also says that derivation is 14th century and even Terry wasn't that old!
- Why is desperacy not an English word?
Desperacy is “not a word” 1 because just plain despair alone plenty suffices as a noun, without any redundantly tedious nominalizationalizing suffixes and postfixes and add-on-the-enders The take-away lesson here is that sometimes, perhaps even often, it is far better to trim things off instead of tack them on
- What words sound like opposites but are synonyms?
Somewhat related to this question, I am curious to know what words in English would seem to be opposites at first blush but are in fact synonyms? Immediately I can think of flammable and inflammable
- etymology - Where does I could eat a horse come from? - English . . .
In a culture where horses were far from the preferred meat source, people may have eaten them only in straitened circumstances, when no other source of meat was available, such as in severe dearths, with consequent privation for the horse prior to its being eaten, too—and again this would tend to reinforce the perception that their meat was
- Etymology of amoral - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
At any rate, no such being can be found out of a mad-house ; and even there, what we see is not so much the absolute privation of the rational and moral faculties, as the awful spectacle of reason and conscience alike in ruins
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