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Beneficial vs Edifying - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between beneficial and edifying

is that beneficial is helpful or good to something or someone while edifying is that educates, informs, illuminates or instructs.

As a verb edifying is

present participle of lang=en.

beneficial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Helpful or good to something or someone.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}

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    Antonyms

    * detrimental * harmful * unfavourable

    Derived terms

    * beneficial owner

    edifying

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs.
  • That enlightens or uplifts.

    • Verb

    (head)
    • "Do not let any corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers." -Ephesians 4:29 (KJV)

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