What's the difference between porism and purism?

Porism


Definition:

  • (n.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.
  • (n.) A corollary.

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Purism


Definition:

  • (n.) Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Centrist appeal may be undercut by history of ideological purism and father’s long and complicated shadow.
  • (2) But I am also an opponent of legal purism, and have no time for institutionalised mythmaking – whether from the authoritarian right or the liberal left.
  • (3) Tea Party favorite for conservative purism on budgets and taxation.

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