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Antidote vs. Anecdote — What's the Difference?

Antidote vs. Anecdote — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Antidote and Anecdote

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Antidote

An antidote is a substance that can counteract a form of poisoning. The term ultimately derives from the Greek term φάρμακον ἀντίδοτον (pharmakon) antidoton, "(medicine) given as a remedy".

Anecdote

An anecdote is a brief, revealing account of an individual person or an incident: "a story with a point," such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative or to characterize by delineating a specific quirk or trait. Occasionally humorous, anecdotes differ from jokes because their primary purpose is not simply to provoke laughter but to reveal a truth more general than the brief tale itself.Anecdotes may be real or fictional; the anecdotal digression is a common feature of literary works and even oral anecdotes typically involve subtle exaggeration and dramatic shape designed to entertain the listener.

Antidote

A medicine taken or given to counteract a particular poison
There is no known antidote to the poison of the pufferfish

Anecdote

A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
He told anecdotes about his job

Antidote

A remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison.
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Anecdote

A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.

Antidote

An agent that relieves or counteracts
Jogging as an antidote to nervous tension.

Anecdote

Pl. an·ec·dotes or an·ec·do·ta (-dōtə) Secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biography.

Antidote

To relieve or counteract with an antidote
"Hallie's family life is laced with the poison of self-hatred, a poison that Sam has antidoted with love and understanding" (Christopher Swan).

Anecdote

A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
Tell an anecdote
Relate a short anecdote

Antidote

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison.
She reached the hospital in time to receive the antidote for the snake venom.

Anecdote

An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.

Antidote

(figurative) Something that counteracts or prevents something harmful.
We need an antidote for this misinformation.

Anecdote

A previously untold secret account of an incident.

Antidote

(transitive) To counteract as an antidote.

Anecdote

(ambitransitive) To tell anecdotes (about).

Antidote

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; - used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

Anecdote

Unpublished narratives.

Antidote

Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.

Anecdote

A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

Antidote

To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote.
Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins.

Anecdote

Short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

Antidote

To fortify or preserve by an antidote.

Antidote

A remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison

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