Inhumation vs Funeral - What's the difference?
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The act of burial.
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The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
(medicine) arenation
Related to a ceremony in honor of a deceased person.
A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
(dated, chiefly, in the plural) A funeral sermon.
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Inhumation is a related term of funeral.
As nouns the difference between inhumation and funeral
is that inhumation is the act of burial while funeral is a ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.As an adjective funeral is
related to a ceremony in honor of a deceased person.inhumation
English
Noun
(en noun)Cremation or Burial," New York Times , 18 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):
- "Cremation versus Inhumation " was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
Dynasty of Priestesses," archaeology.org , 10 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):
- Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations .
Synonyms
* burial, entombment, intermentAntonyms
* disinterment, exhumationfuneral
English
(wikipedia funeral)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- No one likes to go to funerals .
- Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals .
