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Catchphrase vs. Mantra — What's the Difference?

Catchphrase vs. Mantra — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Catchphrase and Mantra

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Catchphrase

A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance. Such phrases often originate in popular culture and in the arts, and typically spread through word of mouth and a variety of mass media (such as films, internet, literature and publishing, television such as cartoons and radio).

Mantra

A mantra (Sanskrit: मन्त्र, romanized: mantra, ; Pali: mantaṃ) or mantram is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words in Sanskrit, Pali and other languages believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers. Some mantras have a syntactic structure and literal meaning, while others do not.The earliest mantras were composed in Vedic Sanskrit in India.

Catchphrase

A repeated expression, often originating in popular culture.

Mantra

(Hinduism) A sacred verbal formula repeated in prayer, meditation, or incantation, such as an invocation of a god, a magic spell, or a syllable or portion of scripture containing mystical potentialities.

Catchphrase

A signature phrase of a particular person or group.
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Mantra

A commonly repeated word or phrase, especially in advocacy or for motivation
"The mantra of solid-waste management has long been reduce, reuse, recycle" (Susan Freinkel).

Catchphrase

A phrase that has become a catchword

Mantra

A concept or fact that is mentioned repeatedly, especially in advocacy
"Another mantra of housing bulls in America is that national average house prices have never fallen for a full year since modern statistics began" (Economist).

Mantra

(Hinduism) The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer.

Mantra

A phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation.

Mantra

(by extension) A slogan or phrase often repeated.

Mantra

A prayer; an invocation; a religious formula; a charm.

Mantra

A commonly repeated word or phrase;
She repeated `So pleased with how its going' at intervals like a mantra

Mantra

(Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns

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