Beneficial vs Beneficence - What's the difference?
beneficial | beneficence |
Helpful or good to something or someone.
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As an adjective beneficial
is helpful or good to something or someone.As a noun beneficence is
an act of philanthropy, a kind deed; an act which benefits someone (else..beneficial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial . It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
