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Godlike vs Pious - What's the difference?

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Godlike is a related term of pious.


As adjectives the difference between godlike and pious

is that godlike is having the characteristics of a god while pious is of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing.

godlike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the characteristics of a god.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1895 , title = , author = H. L. Mencken (translator) , original = Der Antichrist , by = (Friedrich Nietzsche) , section = ยง48 , passage = Man himself had been his greatest'' blunder; he had created a rival to himself; science makes men ''godlike โ€” it is all up with priests and gods when man becomes scientific! }}
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  • , date = 1990-09-01 , title = (The Vor Game) , first = Lois McMaster , last = Bujold , authorlink = Lois McMaster Bujold , publisher = Baen Books , isbn = 9780671720148 , ol = 7663039M , passage = When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate. }}
  • * {{quote-video
  • , date = 2001-07-14 , title = , series = (Farscape) , season = 3 , number = 12 , people = (Ben Browder) , role = John Crichton , passage = Godlike' aliens! Man, do I hate '''godlike''' aliens! I'll trade a critter for a ' godlike alien, any day! }}
  • Characteristic of a god.
  • * 1817 , (John Keats), โ€œโ€:
  • And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep / Of godlike hardship tells me I must die / Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
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  • , year = 1850 , title = A Few Thoughts for a Young Man , first = Horace , last = Mann , authorlink = Horace Mann , passage = Beneficence is godlike , and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts. }}
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  • , year = 1949 , year_published = 1965 , title = The Time Axis , first = Henry , last = Kuttner , authorlink = Henry Kuttner , ol = 22036162M , passage = It took the combined skills of three great civilizations far apart in time to frame that godlike concept in which the tangible universe itself was only a single factor. }}

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    pious

    English

    Adjective

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  • Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
  • Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious .

    Usage notes

    * Sometimes used pejoratively, in the sense of "mistaken" or "false" piety, as in "pious errors", "pious frauds".

    Synonyms

    * reverent, reverential, dutiful, religious, devout, godly

    Antonyms

    * (of or pertaining to piety) impious, independent, profane

    Derived terms

    * piously * piousness