Difference between Token and Keepsake

What is the difference between Token and Keepsake?

Token as a noun is something serving as an expression of something else; sign, symbol. while Keepsake as a noun is some object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.

Token

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Something or someone serving as an expression of something else. Done as an indication or a pledge; perfunctory, minimal or merely symbolic.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To symbolize or instantiate

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something serving as an expression of something else; sign, symbol. A keepsake or souvenir. A piece of stamped metal used as a substitute for money. A particular thing to which a concept applies. An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing. Also called a symbol.

Example sentence: I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.

Keepsake

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Some object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps of poetry and prose, and engravings.

We hope you now know whether to use Token or Keepsake in your sentence.

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