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Odium vs Opium - What's the difference?

odium | opium |

As nouns the difference between odium and opium

is that odium is hatred; dislike while opium is a yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

odium

English

Noun

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  • Hatred; dislike.
    • His conduct brought him into odium''', or, brought '''odium upon him.
  • The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
  • * Dryden
    • She threw the odium of the fact on me.

    Related terms

    * odious ----

    opium

    English

    (wikipedia opium)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum , and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
  • (countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
  • * "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, . . . It is the opium of the people." -

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