upshot vs butterfly effect

butterfly effect vs upshot

upshot and butterfly effect both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
upshot	Yes	No	No	No
butterfly effect	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, butterfly effect is a hyponym of upshot; that is, butterfly effect is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than upshot:

upshot: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
butterfly effect: the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago

Other hyponyms of upshot include materialisation, materialization, offspring, aftereffect, aftermath, backwash, wake, bandwagon effect, brisance, by-product, byproduct, change, coattails effect, Coriolis effect, dent, domino effect, harvest, impact, wallop, influence, knock-on effect, branch, offset, offshoot, outgrowth, product, placebo effect, position effect, repercussion, reverberation, response, fallout, side effect, spillover.

upshot (noun)	butterfly effect (noun)
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon	the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago

Difference between upshot and butterfly effect

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