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Beneficence vs Benefaction - What's the difference?

beneficence | benefaction |

As nouns the difference between beneficence and benefaction

is that beneficence is an act of philanthropy, a kind deed; an act which benefits someone (else. while benefaction is an act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.

beneficence

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of philanthropy, a kind deed; an act which benefits someone (else.)

    • Antonyms

    * maleficence

    See also

    * benefice * good works

    benefaction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
  • * 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 70:
    • We all feel that sleep is a benefaction to our psychical life, and the obscure awareness of the popular mind is clearly unwilling to be robbed of its prejudice that the dream is one of the ways in which sleep confers its benefactions.
  • An act of charity; almsgiving.