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Didactic vs Edifying - What's the difference?

didactic | edifying |

As adjectives the difference between didactic and edifying

is that didactic is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry while edifying is that educates, informs, illuminates or instructs.

As a noun didactic

is a treatise on teaching or education.

As a verb edifying is

present participle of lang=en.

didactic

English

Alternative forms

* didactick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
  • * Macaulay
    • The finest didactic poem in any language.
  • Excessively moralizing.
  • (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

    • Derived terms

    * didact * didactical * didactically * didacticism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

    • 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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