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 (-dōtə) 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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