Difference between Independent and Absolute

What is the difference between Independent and Absolute?

Independent as an adjective is not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free while Absolute as an adjective is loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command.

Independent

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free not affiliated with any political party

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform. A neutral or uncommitted person.

Example sentence: I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Absolute

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command.Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless.Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; — opposed to relative and ; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.Authoritative; peremptory.Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. (See ablative absolute.)

Part of speech: noun

Definition: That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental.In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

Example sentence: It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

We hope you now know whether to use Independent or Absolute in your sentence.

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