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Enjoyment vs Paradise - What's the difference?

enjoyment | paradise | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between enjoyment and paradise

is that enjoyment is the condition of enjoying anything while paradise is heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.

As a verb paradise is

to affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.

As a proper noun Paradise is

heaven.

enjoyment

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of enjoying anything.
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  • (uncountable) An enjoyable state of mind.
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  • (countable) An activity that gives pleasure.
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  • (legal) The exercise of a legal right.

    • Related terms

    * amusement * joy * happiness * hedonism

    paradise

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, religion) Heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.
  • * Bible, Luke xxiii. 43
    • To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise .
  • * Longfellow
    • It sounds to him like her mother's voice, / Singing in Paradise .
  • (figuratively) A very pleasant place.
    • an island paradise in the Caribbean
  • (figuratively) A very positive experience.
  • (architecture) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
  • A churchyard or cemetery.

    • Synonyms

    * haven * heaven * utopia

    Derived terms

    * bird of paradise * fool's paradise * grains of paradise * paradise duck * paradise flycatcher * paradisiac * paradisiacal * paradisiacally * Surfers Paradise * trouble in paradise

    Related terms

    * parvis

    See also

    * Arcadia * Avalon * Nirvana * Shangri-la

    Verb

    (paradis)
  • To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
    • (Marston)

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