Paradise vs Elysium - What's the difference?
paradise | elysium |
(chiefly, religion) Heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.
* Bible, Luke xxiii. 43
* Longfellow
(figuratively) A very pleasant place.
(figuratively) A very positive experience.
(architecture) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
A churchyard or cemetery.
To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
(Classical mythology) the home of the blessed after death.
A place or state of ideal happiness; paradise.
A region in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
blissful; euphoric
of or pertaining to Elysium.
As proper nouns the difference between paradise and elysium
is that paradise is heaven while Elysium is (Classical mythology) the home of the blessed after death.As a noun paradise
is heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.As a verb paradise
is to affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.As an adjective Elysium is
blissful; euphoric.paradise
English
Noun
(en noun)- To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise .
- It sounds to him like her mother's voice, / Singing in Paradise .
- an island paradise in the Caribbean
Synonyms
* haven * heaven * utopiaDerived terms
* bird of paradise * fool's paradise * grains of paradise * paradise duck * paradise flycatcher * paradisiac * paradisiacal * paradisiacally * Surfers Paradise * trouble in paradiseSee also
* Arcadia * Avalon * Nirvana * Shangri-laVerb
(paradis)- (Marston)