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Didactic vs Homily - What's the difference?

didactic | homily |

As nouns the difference between didactic and homily

is that didactic is a treatise on teaching or education while homily is a sermon, especially concerning a practical matter.

As an adjective didactic

is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry.

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.

    • homily

    English

    Noun

    (homilies)
  • A sermon, especially concerning a practical matter.
  • *
  • A moralizing lecture.
  • * Byron
    • As I have heard my father / Deal out in his long homilies .
  • A platitude.