Difference between Primal and Primordial

What is the difference between Primal and Primordial?

Primal as an adjective is being the first in time, or history. while Primordial as an adjective is first, earliest or original

Primal

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Being the first in time, or history. Being of greatest importance; primary.

Example sentence: Because racism is not like jealousy or selfishness, it is not a primal urge or a basic instinct, it is a 400-year-old political and economic system that has infected our institutions, our culture and even our thinking.

Primordial

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: first, earliest or originalcharacteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism of, or relating to a primordiumprimeval

Example sentence: Water represents to me, the beginnings of life, it is where we come from in our most primordial sense. It relates to some of our deepest subconscious thinking - it's a force we can't really see or understand, we just get glimpses of. But it's a part of us all.

We hope you now know whether to use Primal or Primordial in your sentence.

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