distinction

/dɪˈstɪŋkʃən/

意味: 区別、特筆すべき点

例文: June made a sharp tea distinction.
　　  ジューンがお茶の鋭い区別をした。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: academic distinction(学業の優秀さ), clear distinction(明確な区別), social distinction(社会的な区別)

定義: 違い、区別、または優れた特徴を指します。何かが他のものと異なることを示すために使われます。たとえば、ある人が特定の分野で特に優れている場合、その人は「distinction」を持っていると言えます。また、物事や概念の違いを明確にするためにも使われます。

distinctionは約80,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a discrimination between things as different and distinct
Noun: high status importance owing to marked superiority
Noun: a distinguishing quality
Noun: a distinguishing difference

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She earned a distinction for her outstanding academic performance.(彼女は優れた学業成績で特別賞を受賞しました。)
There’s a clear distinction between right and wrong in this situation.(この状況では正しいことと間違っていることの明確な区別があります。)
His distinction as a leader inspires others to follow his example.(彼のリーダーとしての卓越性は他の人々に彼の模範に従うように促します。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: it is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation
Noun: a scholar of great eminence
Noun: it has the distinction of being the cheapest restaurant in town
Noun: he learned the distinction between gold and lead

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): differentiation, distinction, eminence, note, preeminence

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): difference, discrimination, high status, quality

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ability, accuracy, air, amorality, appearance, arability, asset, attraction, bad, brachycephaly, center stage, certainty, championship, changeableness, changelessness, characteristic, clearness, combustibility, complexity, comprehensibility, constructiveness, correctness, counterfactuality, credibility, destructiveness, difference, differentia, differential, differentiation, difficulty, directivity, discrepancy, dissimilarity, distinction, divinity, divisibility, dolichocephaly, domesticity, ease, elegance, eminence, ethnicity, excellence, expressiveness, extraordinariness, extremeness, factuality, fibrosity, fidelity, finiteness, foreignness, fruitfulness, fruitlessness, generality, good, hardness, holiness, hot stuff, humaneness, humanness, humor, ideality, illogicality, immateriality, immobility, immorality, impenetrability, impressiveness, inability, inaccuracy, incomprehensibility, incorrectness, incredibility, individualization, inelegance, inequality, infidelity, infiniteness, inhumaneness, insolubility, inutility, irregularity, lawfulness, logicality, materiality, memorability, mobility, morality, naivete, nativeness, naturalness, nature, navigability, neediness, negativity, occidentalism, opacity, ordinariness, orientalism, originality, otherness, painfulness, parental quality, particularity, pathos, penetrability, piquancy, pleasantness, popularity, positivity, power, powerlessness, precedence, probability, protectiveness, publicity, quantifiability, regularity, relativity, responsiveness, romanticism, salability, sameness, satisfactoriness, seniority, simplicity, snootiness, soapiness, solubility, sophistication, spinnability, stardom, stuff, stuffiness, subjectivism, sufficiency, suitability, taste, tone, ulteriority, ultimate, uncertainty, unholiness, unlawfulness, unnaturalness, unoriginality, unpleasantness, unpopularity, unresponsiveness, unsatisfactoriness, unsuitability, unwholesomeness, urbanity, utility, variety, virtu, waxiness, wholesomeness, woodiness, worth, worthlessness

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): contradistinction, hairsplitting, king, line

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: differentiate, distinguish, eminent, preeminent

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: general

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): dis

Suffixes(接尾辞): tion

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: positive