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Lenitive vs Assuasive - What's the difference?

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Lenitive is a related term of assuasive.


As adjectives the difference between lenitive and assuasive

is that lenitive is analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering while assuasive is mild, soothing.

As nouns the difference between lenitive and assuasive

is that lenitive is an analgesic or other source of relief from pain while assuasive is anything that soothes.

lenitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.
  • (of a person) Mild; gentle.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An analgesic or other source of relief from pain
  • * {{quote-book, year=1688, author=David Hume, title=The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I, Part E, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is now full time to free him from all these necessities, and to apply cordials and lenitives , after those severities which have already had their full course against him. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Upon the whole, as the author seems to share all the common miseries of life, he appears to partake likewise of its lenitives and abatements. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Alexander Pope, title=The Iliad of Homer, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Their pain soft arts of pharmacy can ease, Thy breast alone no lenitives appease. }} ----

    assuasive

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • mild, soothing

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that soothes.
  • * 1817 , Richard Yates, The basis of national welfare
    • the truly Christian assuasives of friendly attention