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Placid vs Lenitive - What's the difference?

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Placid is a related term of lenitive.


As adjectives the difference between placid and lenitive

is that placid is serene; calm while lenitive is analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.

As a noun lenitive is

an analgesic or other source of relief from pain.

placid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
    • a placid disposition
    a placid lake
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    • Derived terms

    * placidness * placidity

    lenitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.
  • (of a person) Mild; gentle.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An analgesic or other source of relief from pain
  • * {{quote-book, year=1688, author=David Hume, title=The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I, Part E, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is now full time to free him from all these necessities, and to apply cordials and lenitives , after those severities which have already had their full course against him. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Upon the whole, as the author seems to share all the common miseries of life, he appears to partake likewise of its lenitives and abatements. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Alexander Pope, title=The Iliad of Homer, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Their pain soft arts of pharmacy can ease, Thy breast alone no lenitives appease. }} ----