Difference between advance and advancement

Hi.

Would you please tell the difference between them?

Thanks

hrsaneiHi.
what is the difference between advance as a noun and advancement?
Are they interchangeable?

Ex. There has been a major advancement/advance in computer technology.
Ex. Advancements/advance is science


Thank you for your help

Hi Hamid,

'Advance' is often associated with the idea of increased developme

Hi Hamid,

I agree with innertide.

We use advance for technological,scientific,medical etc whereas we use advancement as progress or development in your job, level of knowledge etc.

In addition advancement is both countable and uncountable.

Hope it helps,

Iman

Thank you Innertide for your response.

I don't find your explanation clear enough to distinguish between the two words.

I don't get how increased development or improvement is different from developing progression.

You are using synonymous words to define two different words.

Would you provide me with several examples in which one f

Hi Iman.

Thank you for your time and response.

It seems you have got in rut. You have copied and pasted Longman definitions of the words here. I appreciate that, but I have a Longman dictionary too.

As the definitions go, how on earth level of knowledge is different from scientific areas?

COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) provides 152

When in doubt, choose "advance." Too many writers assume "fat" words with more syllables are better than "lean" words, and their writing simply sounds pretentious.