Difference between Declension and Declination

What is the difference between Declension and Declination?

Declension as a noun is a way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive. while Declination as a noun is at a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.

Declension

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive. The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.

Declination

Part of speech: noun

Definition: At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the earth and the equatorial plane.A refusal.Declension.

We hope you now know whether to use Declension or Declination in your sentence.

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