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Bounty vs Benefaction - What's the difference?

bounty | benefaction | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between bounty and benefaction

is that bounty is generosity while benefaction is an act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.

bounty

English

Noun

(bounties)
  • generosity
  • something given liberally
  • A reward for some specific act, especially one given by a government or authority
  • (nautical) formerly, money paid to volunteers for serving in the British navy in time of war

    • Derived terms

    * bounty hunter

    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.