distinction

noun
[L11523]

Compounds

In compounds

Forms

  • singular : distinction
  • plural : distinctions

Senses

  • fundamental philosophical abstraction, involves the recognition of difference
  • social force that assigns different values upon different people within a given society

    • Women of Distinction (1893) L. A. Scruggs et al.

  • separate, divide
  • a figure of speech through which the act of cognition is designated, reflecting the objective difference between real objects and elements of consciousness; In formal logic, one of the logical devices that can be used instead of defining