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Bliss vs Jovial - What's the difference?

bliss | jovial |

As a proper noun bliss

is originating as a nickname.

As an adjective jovial is

(obsolete) pertaining to jove or zeus; jovian.

bliss

English

Noun

  • perfect happiness

    • Derived terms

    * blissful * blissless * bliss ninny * blissed up * follow one's bliss * ignorance is bliss

    jovial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Pertaining to Jove or Zeus; Jovian.
  • (obsolete) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter; Jovian.
  • (astrology, obsolete) Under the influence of the planet Jupiter (considered a source of happiness).
  • Merry; cheerful and good-humored.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial —thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}

    Related terms

    * Jove * Jovian

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