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Opiate vs Dormitive - What's the difference?

opiate | dormitive |

As nouns the difference between opiate and dormitive

is that opiate is "opiates" while dormitive is a medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.

As an adjective dormitive is

causing sleep.

opiate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
  • Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.
  • Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia opiate) (en noun)
  • A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
  • Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.
  • * Bentley
    • They chose atheism as an opiate .

    Hypernyms

    * opioid

    Verb

    (opiat)
  • To treat with an opiate drug.

    • See also

    * codeine * morphine * papaverine * thebaine ----

    dormitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing sleep.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1916 , author=John Dewey , title= , passage=But "imitation" throws no light upon why they so act; it repeats the fact as an explanation of itself. It is an explanation of the same order as the famous saying that opium puts men to sleep because of its dormitive power.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1673 , author=Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) , title=Le Malade Imaginere, Act III, Interlude iii , passage=Quare Opium facit dormire: ... Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva. (Why Opium produces sleep: ... Because there is in it a dormitive power.) }}

    Derived terms

    * dormitive principle * dormitive virtue

    Related terms

    * dorm * dormant * dormition * dormitory

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.

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