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Leonine vs Leoninity - What's the difference?

leonine | leoninity |

As an adjective leonine

is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the lion.

As a noun leoninity is

the state or condition of being leonine; the nature of a lion.

leonine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the lion.
    • His leonine face scared the young children.
  • * 1887 , , What I Remember, Volume 2 , chapter XIV ( ebook):
    • He [Landor] was a man of somewhat leonine aspect as regards the general appearance and expression of the head and face, which accorded well with the large and massive build of the figure, and to which a superbly curling white beard added not only picturesqueness, but a certain nobility.

    leoninity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) The state or condition of being leonine; the nature of a lion.