Benefaction vs Philanthropy - What's the difference?
benefaction | philanthropy | Related terms |
An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 70:
An act of charity; almsgiving.
(uncountable) Benevolent altruism with the intention of increasing the well-being of mankind.
Charitable giving, charity.
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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 A philanthropic act
A charitable foundation
Benefaction is a related term of philanthropy.
As nouns the difference between benefaction and philanthropy
is that benefaction is an act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing while philanthropy is (uncountable) benevolent altruism with the intention of increasing the well-being of mankind.benefaction
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
philanthropy
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(wikipedia philanthropy)Alternative forms
* phylanthropy (obsolete)Noun
- As public funding is reduced, we depend increasingly on private philanthropy .
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- His tombstone lists his various philanthropies .
- the Rockefeller philanthropies