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Advent vs Threshold - What's the difference?

advent | threshold |

As a proper noun advent

is (christianity) the first or the expected second coming of christ.

As a noun threshold is

the bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.

advent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Coming; coming to; approach; arrival.
  • * Young
    • Death's dreadful advent
  • * 1853 , , "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0146000129, p. 3:
    • At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
  • (religion, Christianity, always capitalized) See Advent.

    • Synonyms

    * (coming) arrival, approach, oncome, onset

    Related terms

    * Advent * advene * Adventist * Advent Sunday * adventual * Advent wreath

    threshold

    English

    (wikipedia threshold)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
  • (by extension) An entrance
  • The start of the landing area of a runway
  • (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
  • The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due
  • The outset of an action or project
  • The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.
  • The point of beginning or entry
    • From all the pressure my partner has been through lately, his emotion threshold has suddenly gotten pretty low these days. I can tell because he easily loses it when he is around people or hears about anything to do with his concerns.

    Related terms

    * thresholding * thresholdless * thresholdlike