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Bacchanalian vs Dionysian - What's the difference?

bacchanalian | dionysian |

As a noun bacchanalian

is (bacchanalian).

As an adjective dionysian is

wild, irrational, and undisciplined.

bacchanalian

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
  • * :
    • Even bacchanalian madness has its charms.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
    • English eponyms

    dionysian

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to Dionysus.

    • See also

    * Apollonian