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Aeon vs Abysmal - What's the difference?

aeon | abysmal |

As a noun aeon

is (au|nz|british).

As an adjective abysmal is

(now|rare) pertaining to, or resembling an abyss; unending; profound; fathomless; immeasurable .

aeon

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (AU, NZ, British)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1892, author=
    • , title=When Earth's Last Picture is Painted (L’Envoi to 'The Seven Seas') , passage=When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,/ When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,/ We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,/Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew.}}
  • A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
    • ----

    abysmal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (now, rare) Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss; unending; profound; fathomless; immeasurable.
  • * Carlyle
    • Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space.
  • (figurative, colloquial) Bottomless; extremely bad.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=June 9 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Robben curled an effort against the foot of the post from the edge of the box after being gifted the ball by an abysmal clearance from keeper Stephan Andersen.}}

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "abysmal" is often applied: ignorance, record, performance, poverty, conditions, quality, perplexity, result, and failure.

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