Foodstuff vs Aliment - What's the difference?

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Foodstuff is a related term of aliment.

As nouns the difference between foodstuff and aliment

is that foodstuff is an instance of material which may be used as food while aliment is food.

As a verb aliment is

(obsolete) to feed, nourish.

foodstuff

English

Noun

(en noun)

An instance of material which may be used as food.

aliment

English

Noun

(en noun)

Food.

(figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.

* Francis Bacon

aliments of their sloth and weakness

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 356:

All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?

(Scotland) An allowance for maintenance.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To feed, nourish.

To sustain, support.

* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 434:

Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.

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