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Emollient vs Mollify - What's the difference?

emollient | mollify |

As verbs the difference between emollient and mollify

is that emollient is while mollify is to ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.

As an adjective emollient

is emollient.

As a noun emollient

is emollient (something which softens or lubricates the skin).

emollient

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something which softens or lubricates the skin.
  • * 2008 , Carol A. Miller, Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults (Fifth edition) , Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, p. 505,
    • [T]he effectiveness of an emollient is based on its ability to prevent water evaporation,
  • Anything soothing the mind, or that makes something more acceptable.
  • * 2004 , David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas ,
    • Attentive conversation is an emollient I lack sorely aboard Prophetess & the doctor is a veritable polymath.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Moisturizing.
  • Soothing]] or [[mollify, mollifying.

    • Related terms

    * mollify ----

    mollify

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mollifie

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.
  • * 1893 , (Henry George), The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII, p. 104:
  • *:All that charity can do where injustice exists is here and there to somewhat mollify the effects of injustice.
  • * 1997 , A Government Reinvented: A Study of Alberta's Deficit Elimination Program, p. 408:
  • *:The draft Charter School Handbook issued in November 1994 sought to mollify concerns over teacher quality, if not ATA membership, by requiring teacher certification.
  • To appease (anger), pacify, gain the good will of.
  • * 1867 , , chapter 2:
    • Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
  • * 1916 , , chapter 5:
    • The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed.
  • To soften; to make tender
  • * 1662 , , Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
    • "Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire."
  • * 1724 , (William Burkitt), Expository Notes, with Practical Observations on the New Testament, p. 102:
  • *:By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire …

    • Synonyms

    * (to ease a burden) assuage, calm, comfort, mitigate, soothe * (to appease) appease, conciliate, pacify, placate, propitiate, satisfy * See also

    Related terms

    * emollient * mollification