Limbo vs Underworld - What's the difference?
limbo | underworld |
The place where innocent souls exist temporarily until they can enter heaven, notably those of the saints who died before the advent of Christ (limbus patruum'') and those of unbaptized but innocent children (''limbus infantum ).
Any in-between place, state or condition of neglect or oblivion which results in an unresolved status, delay or deadlock.
A dance played by taking turns crossing under a horizontal bar or stick. The stick is lowered with each round, and the game is won by the player who passes under the bar in the lowest position.
That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice.
(mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.
As a proper noun limbo
is abbreviation of limburger, an inhabitant of limburg, a part of the low countries.As a noun underworld is
(underworld).limbo
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia limbo)- My application has been stuck in bureaucratic limbo for two weeks.