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Dalliance vs Liaison - What's the difference?

dalliance | liaison |

As nouns the difference between dalliance and liaison

is that dalliance is playful flirtation; amorous play while liaison is .

dalliance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Playful flirtation; amorous play.
  • *
  • As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance , which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),
  • A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
  • *'>citation
  • A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.
  • Synonyms

    * (a wasting of time) dawdling, idling, trifling * (playful flirtation) flirtation * (sexual relationship) affair

    liaison

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Communication between two parties or groups.
  • Co-operation, working together.
  • A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
  • A tryst, romantic meeting.
  • (figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
  • (linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il ".
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (proscribed) To liaise.