Elysian vs Otherworldly - What's the difference?
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Of or pertaining to Elysian or Elysium, the location.
(idiomatic) Happy, blissful, heavenly.
* 1913. Charles George Herbermann, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work... , Encyclopedia Press, page 573:
Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a different world than that of the tangible here and now, such as a heavenly, spiritual, or imaginary world.
*1917 , , God, the Invisible King , ch. 5,
*:Every religion that becomes ascendant, in so far as it is not otherworldly , must necessarily set its stamp upon the methods and administration of the law.
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*:Dana has the otherworldly temperament of a mystic.
Not belonging to the real world; unnatural; odd and unfamiliar.
*1919 , , Saint's Progress , ch. 7,
*:He had not seen cricket played since the war began; it seemed almost otherworldly , with the click of the bats, and the shrill young voices.
Elysian is a related term of otherworldly.
As adjectives the difference between elysian and otherworldly
is that elysian is of or pertaining to elysian or elysium, the location while otherworldly is of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a different world than that of the tangible here and now, such as a heavenly, spiritual, or imaginary world.As a proper noun elysian
is (classical mythology) elysium; home of the blessed, after death.elysian
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(-)- Unlike Raphael's "Galatea" and his "Three Graces", examples of Elysian happiness in a race in the state of innocence, Guilano's decorations resemble saturnalia of lubricity itself.
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