Comfort vs Reassurance - What's the difference?
comfort | reassurance |
Contentment, ease.
Something that offers comfort.
A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
A cause of relief or satisfaction.
To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
* Francis Bacon
To make comfortable. (rfex)
(obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
* Hooker
(obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.
* Shakespeare
the feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled
the act of confirming someone's opinion or impression
(legal, dated) reinsurance
As nouns the difference between comfort and reassurance
is that comfort is contentment, ease while reassurance is the feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.As a verb comfort
is to relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.comfort
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.
- the comforts of home
- We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.
- The outcome of the peace negotiations in Moscow in 1940 was a heavy blow to the young nation, but in the same time a great comfort : at least the independency was preserved.
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*Antonyms
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(en verb)- Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.
- Light excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.
- (Wyclif)
- God's own testimony doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.
- I cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!